respectively

adverb

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 Darien, Norwalk and New Canaan filled out the remainder of Connecticut’s representation, ranking 60th, 65th, and 81st respectively, according to PropertyShark. — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 3 Nov. 2026 The Tablet 11 and Tablet 8 models offer 11-inch and 8-inch displays, respectively. — Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 3 Nov. 2026 Shares of memory stock Sandisk advanced almost 4%, and shares of neocloud names Nebius and Ire gained 7% and 9%, respectively. — Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2026 Calvert and Kim currently represent the 41st and 40th congressional districts, respectively. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026 See All Example Sentences for respectively
Recent Examples of Synonyms for respectively
  1. separately
  2. individually
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  • 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
Definition of separately
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  • 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
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“Respectively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/respectively. Accessed 4 Nov. 2026.

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