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
Trump is constitutionally prohibited from serving a third term.
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Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2025
But only two of the judges on Friday found that Musk was likely acting constitutionally.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 28 Mar. 2025
After the 22nd Amendment was enacted in 1951, the first president to be constitutionally barred, Dwight D. Eisenhower, joked about a potential loophole in the system.
—Michael Wilner, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2025
For the 1932 elections, the House was reapportioned, based on what was constitutionally required: total population figures.
— Made By History, Time, 2 Apr. 2025
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Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2025
But only two of the judges on Friday found that Musk was likely acting constitutionally.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 28 Mar. 2025
After the 22nd Amendment was enacted in 1951, the first president to be constitutionally barred, Dwight D. Eisenhower, joked about a potential loophole in the system.
—Michael Wilner, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2025
For the 1932 elections, the House was reapportioned, based on what was constitutionally required: total population figures.
— Made By History, Time, 2 Apr. 2025
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If the media environment is fragmented, so, too, is the Democratic resistance itself: split, as Kang wrote in this column, in February, among incompatible strategic impulses; severed from a discredited Party establishment but uncertain where to go next; fundamentally leaderless.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
9 May 2025
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Manufacturing underpins modern technology, yet its core processes haven’t fundamentally changed since the mid-20th century.—
Matthew Putman,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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