respectively

Definition of respectivelynext
as in separately
for each person or thing The first and second place winners were given, respectively, a trophy and a ribbon for their performances.

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Recent Examples of respectively The legislation would not affect San Bernardino or Orange counties, where the sheriff's offices have oversight of the county coroner, respectively. Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026 Promising cancer vaccine Shares of pharma giants Moderna and Merck jumped 177% and over 12%, respectively, after the firms reported encouraging initial results from a late-stage trial of their experimental personalized cancer vaccine. Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2026 Steven Kwan and Brayan Rocchio added RBI singles in the sixth and eighth, respectively, for the Guardians. ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026 Hanke also designed or advised on currency boards in Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Bosnia — all of which still anchor to the euro today — and pushed similar plans in Kazakhstan that stalled on Moscow’s objections, respectively. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for respectively
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  • Ncube once was the district vice president of sales and marketing for that nonprofit, which operates separately from the city.
    Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • New South Wales separately passed tighter state firearms laws in December, while the federal government also strengthened laws targeting hate speech and extremism.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2026
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  • The number represents about a third of the Connecticut prison population and individually represents mothers, fathers, brothers, sons who have been accused but not found guilty.
    Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Most is in the form of subatomic particles called neutrinos, which carry little energy individually but are generated in vast numbers when a star explodes.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2026

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“Respectively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/respectively. Accessed 24 Aug. 2026.

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