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there's always one person stuck with cleaning up the mess, namely me
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Motifs associated with Paris and the Games, namely the Eiffel Tower and the Olympic flame also feature.
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Oscar Holland, CNN, 16 July 2024
He's also worked with Democrats on issues affecting the Rust Belt, namely onshoring American manufacturing.
—Nick Sobczyk, Axios, 15 July 2024
Samsung may have cemented artificial intelligence’s place in a new frontier — namely the finger.
—Adriana Lee, WWD, 15 July 2024
This is why privacy advocates have long made a distinction between communication platforms—namely, the secure messaging app Signal—that are designed to generate the absolute bare minimum of metadata, versus other communication platforms that don't curtail metadata use to the same degree.
—Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 12 July 2024
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Oscar Holland, CNN, 16 July 2024
He's also worked with Democrats on issues affecting the Rust Belt, namely onshoring American manufacturing.
—Nick Sobczyk, Axios, 15 July 2024
Samsung may have cemented artificial intelligence’s place in a new frontier — namely the finger.
—Adriana Lee, WWD, 15 July 2024
This is why privacy advocates have long made a distinction between communication platforms—namely, the secure messaging app Signal—that are designed to generate the absolute bare minimum of metadata, versus other communication platforms that don't curtail metadata use to the same degree.
—Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 12 July 2024
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“Namely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/namely. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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namely
adverb
name·ly
ˈnām-lē 
: that is to say
the cat family, namely, lions, tigers, and related animals
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