manually
adverb
ma·nu·al·ly
ˈman-yə-wə-lē 
-yə-lē,
-yü-ə-lē
: by hand and not by machine : by manual methods
We have to enter the data manually.
Each winch drum is attached to gears which are turned manually by a large wheel mounted on the inboard side.—
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—Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 16 June 2026
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Park staff first tried to manually lower the ride to get the guests down.
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Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 16 June 2026
Instead of manually building campaigns from scratch, the startup invites brands input a product link or brief.
—Vivian Toh, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
Park staff first tried to manually lower the ride to get the guests down.
—Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
According to emergency management officials, a Denver Fire Department employee manually activated the sirens after receiving a non-emergency 911 call reporting an unconfirmed tornado.
—Sarah Horbacewicz, CBS News, 10 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for manually
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“Manually.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manually. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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