How to Use economically in a Sentence

economically

adverb
  • She writes simply and economically.
  • Duke, in short, is one of the least economically diverse colleges in the United States.
    David Leonhardt, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But China is a country that has done the most economically for the most number of people in the shortest amount of time.
    David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The future of the world’s most economically critical region could hinge on it.
    Time, 27 June 2023
  • Still the work continues to preserve and protect the lake and surrounding forests, along with the tourism that sustains the region economically.
    Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The new cast is younger by about two decades and more diverse in every way (except, perhaps, economically; none of these women lives with roommates in a fifth-floor walk-up).
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
  • Colleges that have set out to become economically diverse have come to the same conclusion.
    David Leonhardt, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Rhodes is among more than a dozen local entrepreneurs at the new incubator space in the heart of one of the city’s most economically disadvantaged areas.
    Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
  • But when the interests of more economically powerful regions are at stake, the rules are relaxed.
    Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Making shows like Boys Love series in Thailand (which cannot be shown in China) is that economically viable.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 Dec. 2023
  • So the stakes of the strike remain high—both politically and economically.
    Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Howard says getting the port and bridge running again is pivotal to the region, both economically and emotionally.
    Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
  • On the other end of the scale, almost four-fifths (78%) will look to conduct M&A in countries geopolitically and economically aligned with their home country.
    Quartz Creative For Ey-Parthenon, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2023
  • At the least, China’s dreams of economically eclipsing the United States may be forever delayed.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
  • But, again, America stands tall with a tent pole, the world economy, no peers economically, again, a master class of delivery.
    ABC News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The financial scandal first revealed in 2016, which became the state's largest fraud case, shook Vermont and the economically depressed region called the Northeast Kingdom.
    Lisa Rathke, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The aim was to keep some areas completely white and to banish people of color into more economically depressed sections of the county.
    Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The judge in Washington also accepted the standing argument that a change in the status of mifepristone would harm the states economically.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Landfills are a common end for returns If the company can’t resell the shirt or refurbish the electric toothbrush economically, the outlook for these items is grim.
    Simone Peinkofer, Fortune, 14 June 2023
  • One such issue is the fact that both have the potential to be economically tempting, pushing women who may be on the fence about donation to participate.
    Kristine Thomason, Women's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • To that end, Iran has sought to flout U.S. attempts to contain it economically and militarily.
    Narges Bajoghli, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2024
  • But the technology isn’t panning out to be as economically feasible as once thought.
    John Ainger, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
  • At the same time, rising costs are squeezing carriers’ margins, forcing them to scrap routes that were economically viable before Covid.
    Angus Whitley, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2024
  • China is also working to make the world more economically dependent on Chinese goods and services and to shift the balance of military power in its favor.
    Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • And that is partly because sports themselves tend to be economically badly managed.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Whichever side won, a war between China and the U.S. would be catastrophic, not just in human terms—some estimates place the number of dead in the hundreds of thousands—but also economically.
    Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The poll also found a majority of Americans believe that over the next 10 years, China will outpace the U.S. both from a military standpoint and economically.
    Emma Colton, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • For 80 years, America had the decision and the moral question of whether slavery was a good thing and whether government economically, culturally, any other reasons, had a role to play in.
    Abby Cruz, ABC News, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The impact of both events — natural and man-made — can still be felt globally, economically, and emotionally.
    Staff Report, Sun Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Moving in and around the estates of this 21st-century House of Mirth, Alex can never pass through the invisible membrane that separates the economically blessed from the permanently doomed.
    Ron Charles, Washington Post, 9 May 2023

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