SEPARATELY Synonyms: 20 Similar and Opposite Words

separately

adverb

Definition of separately

as in individually

not together with someone or something else The software is sold separately from the hardware. Store the raw meat separately so it doesn't contaminate the other food. The professor met with each student separately.

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Recent Examples of separately Earlier in September, two elderly women who had separately gone missing while out picking mushrooms were found dead, with injuries consistent with a bear attack. — Arina Porkhovnik, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026 The woman and her children lived in the nice part of the house and the foster girls — three to five at a time — ate dinner separately in the basement. — Joseph Shapiro, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026 The public-policy theory also operates separately from a promise made in an employment agreement. — William Jones, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026 Many services offer these platforms individually, although contracting them separately means reconciling three contracts and three data models. — Guy Kurlandski, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for separately

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The state should have to individually make cases to collect the money rather than automatically applying liens.

— Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
An exploitable attack path may consist of findings that would not individually justify an emergency fix but collectively provide access to business-critical systems and data.

— Taylor Morgan, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of individually

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It was made in secret and released independently with the backing of its producer The Guardian, and MK2.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2026
These findings provide the first direct evidence that a PDW can exist independently of the main superconducting phase.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026

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