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there's always one person stuck with cleaning up the mess, namely me
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The longer Marvel Rivals exists, the more cosmetic skins are added to the game, and the ones that attract the most attention on social media are the provocative ones, namely for the female characters that show quite a bit of skin.
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Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Sure, the Cardinals got rid of their rentals at the trade deadline -- namely, Ryan Helsley and Phil Maton.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Brands with long ties to the factory, namely Victoria’s Secret and Triumph International, earned huge profits off poor, mostly women Thai workers.
—Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 11 Aug. 2025
This comes after the Financial Times reported that Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices agreed to give the federal government a 15% share of their revenue from selling certain chips in China, namely Nvidia's H20 chips and AMD's MI308 chips.
—Sean Conlon, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025
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Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Sure, the Cardinals got rid of their rentals at the trade deadline -- namely, Ryan Helsley and Phil Maton.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Brands with long ties to the factory, namely Victoria’s Secret and Triumph International, earned huge profits off poor, mostly women Thai workers.
—Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 11 Aug. 2025
This comes after the Financial Times reported that Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices agreed to give the federal government a 15% share of their revenue from selling certain chips in China, namely Nvidia's H20 chips and AMD's MI308 chips.
—Sean Conlon, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025
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“Namely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/namely. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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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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