as in immediately
in person and usually privately
the hostess told me personally that I was invited
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As chief content officer, Wintour personally overlooked brands including Wired, Vanity Fair, GQ, AD, Condé Nast Traveler, Glamour, Bon Appétit, Tatler, World of Interiors, Allure and others under the Condé Nast umbrella.
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Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2025
While Hegseth, a former Fox News anchor, spent the bulk of his time slamming the media coverage and personally insulting reporters who questioned him, Caine stuck to the military details of the bombing.
—Tara Copp, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
Getting to a place of not taking that stuff personally has been the biggest thing for me.
—Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 25 June 2025
Prior guilty pleas In mid-April, two Miami-Dade men who never personally knew Pino pleaded guilty to federal charges involving his hiring of two crews to kill his wife.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
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Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2025
While Hegseth, a former Fox News anchor, spent the bulk of his time slamming the media coverage and personally insulting reporters who questioned him, Caine stuck to the military details of the bombing.
—Tara Copp, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
Getting to a place of not taking that stuff personally has been the biggest thing for me.
—Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 25 June 2025
Prior guilty pleas In mid-April, two Miami-Dade men who never personally knew Pino pleaded guilty to federal charges involving his hiring of two crews to kill his wife.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for personally
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The left-sided centre-back was immediately loaned back to her previous club, PSV, then broke into the Netherlands team at the start of the season.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
27 June 2025
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OpenAI and Meta did not immediately respond to requests for comment.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
27 June 2025
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“Personally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/personally. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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