individually

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 Each will continue to be available as separate services, branded individually. Dade Hayes, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025 Across the news industry, however, there is widespread agreement that subscriptions are the path to sustainability, whether at the institutional level or individually on platforms like Substack and Patreon. Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025 At the airport hangar, a short distance from the jet, Lopez and fellow agents asked each pilot to join them individually in a small conference room. Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025 Swanson Beard said every store is designed individually. Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025 Its RedZone programming creates a seven-hour beast of an event out of some dozen or so games that individually might not move the needle. Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 27 Oct. 2025 Each item is sold individually but is marked in-store for easy identification. Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2025 However, this comment does perhaps rule out any possibility of Harbaugh individually receiving any kind of disciplinary actions from the NFL if he truly is not involved in making injury designations. Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025 Each player individually, the organization, the team, everything … There was a lot of pressure. Sean Gentille, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for individually
Adverb
  • Both of them, along with Jones, made their initial court appearances separately on Thursday.
    Shakeia Taylor, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Winfrey retained the two adjacent cottages, selling them separately to her longtime property manager, making the compound’s total sale around $17 million.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2025
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  • The paleontologist Simon Conway Morris points out that there are common and widespread patterns of convergent evolution in life’s history, where similar adaptations, like eyes, wings, and streamlined bodies, evolved independently in unrelated lineages.
    Big Think, Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
  • All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2025

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“Individually.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/individually. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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