as in inherently
by natural character or ability
I'm afraid that I'm constitutionally incapable of carrying a tune
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Recent Examples of constitutionally
The move would make Florida the first state to end a longstanding – and constitutionally upheld – practice of requiring certain vaccines for school students.
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Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
The inconvenience this causes should be enough to upset Americans, let alone the fact that these are constitutionally dubious.
—Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025
Dabrowski has been a regular critic of the state’s underfunded public employee pension system, proposing constitutionally questionable ways to end it.
—Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
Looking to boost Hispanic voter engagement, in the spring of the election year, Obama ignored Congress and took a constitutionally obtuse executive action shielding immigrants who came to the United States illegally as minors from deportation.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 19 Aug. 2025
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Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
The inconvenience this causes should be enough to upset Americans, let alone the fact that these are constitutionally dubious.
—Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025
Dabrowski has been a regular critic of the state’s underfunded public employee pension system, proposing constitutionally questionable ways to end it.
—Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
Looking to boost Hispanic voter engagement, in the spring of the election year, Obama ignored Congress and took a constitutionally obtuse executive action shielding immigrants who came to the United States illegally as minors from deportation.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 19 Aug. 2025
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Cotton or linen blends work if treated with a water-repellant finish (like Scotchgard), while Polyester, nylon, or olefin (polypropylene) are strong, budget-friendly, and inherently stain resistant.—
Lauren Bengtson,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Oct. 2025
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Sutton doesn’t like the way LLMs are trained, with unsupervised learning from human text followed by a kind of RL using human feedback—because everything the LLM can learn is inherently limited by human knowledge and human preferences.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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What has yet to be determined is whether, just like Hawking radiation means that black holes will eventually evaporate, this form of cosmic radiation will fundamentally cause our Universe’s dark energy to decay away, too.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
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While direct comparisons are difficult due to different test conditions, materials, and baseline designs, these studies suggest the field is exploring fundamentally different architectural approaches alongside incremental flow field optimization.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Constitutionally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/constitutionally. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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