necessarily
adverb
nec·es·sar·i·ly
ˌne-sə-ˈser-ə-lē 
1
: of necessity : unavoidably
The audience was necessarily small.
This endeavor necessarily involves some risk.
2
: as a logical result or consequence
… a holocaust is a disaster, but a disaster is not necessarily a holocaust.—
Harry Shaw
Harry ShawExamples of necessarily in a Sentence
the argument that the existence of the universe necessarily implies the existence of an all-powerful being responsible for creating it
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Supply is necessarily finite—and made more so by the government's artificial caps on health spending.
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That’s not something that necessarily means anything, one way or another.
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Like the restaurant, neither would necessarily involve psilocybin due to current laws.
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Additional moments like these, in which Gaines and his actors find their own way through the text, would have made The Dutchman a more cohesive, if not necessarily cutting, adaptation.
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Sally Pipes, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
That’s not something that necessarily means anything, one way or another.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2025
Like the restaurant, neither would necessarily involve psilocybin due to current laws.
—Anna Spiegel, Axios, 10 Mar. 2025
Additional moments like these, in which Gaines and his actors find their own way through the text, would have made The Dutchman a more cohesive, if not necessarily cutting, adaptation.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for necessarily
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“Necessarily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/necessarily. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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