individually

Definition of individuallynext
as in separately
for each person or thing Each one of you will be disciplined individually for your role in the caper. Their raises were individually determined based on job performance over the past year.

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Recent Examples of individually Right guard Robert Hunt, who’s individually struggled this year but as a leader of the team has answered to questions of his and his unit’s play all season, had very few words. — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2026 Attackers were always stitching together remote vulnerabilities with privilege-escalation bugs that individually looked harmless. — Rohit Dhamankar, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026 The Justice Department also threatened to prosecute election officials individually for knowingly processing ballots cast by noncitizens. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026 For comparison, that’s about what Ohio State and Notre Dame are paid individually for their jersey patch deals. — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2026 Regular people who would otherwise have no sway over national narratives are now powerful enough individually to alter the shape of someone else’s public image, celebrity or not. — Ivy Wolk, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2026 The Wildcats were led by Eden Bastian’s 783 that put her in 12th individually. — Steve Gorches, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026 Perez got the girl’s cell number from a group chat for the team and began messaging her individually in December 2023, the warrant affidavit said. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 27 Oct. 2026 Rather than requiring operators to control every robot individually, the system is designed to manage group activities through centralized coordination and information about each machine’s state. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for individually
Adverb
  • President Karol Nawrocki, who belongs to PiS, was elected separately last year.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Instead of programming the system separately for object recognition, motion tracking, or distance estimation, the team trained F³ to predict future events based on previous signals.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • That creates a practical limit on how much work organizations can delegate, even when individual agents are capable of completing tasks independently.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 1 Nov. 2026
  • This article was sponsored by AliExpress, however, all products were independently selected by our editors.
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 1 Nov. 2026

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“Individually.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/individually. Accessed 4 Nov. 2026.

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