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nominally

[ nom-uh-nl-ee ]

adverb

  1. by or as regards name; in name; ostensibly:

    He was nominally the leader, but others actually ran the organization.



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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of nominally1

First recorded in 1655–65; nominal + -ly
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Americans, in the meantime, kept poking at nominally Spanish California from the sea and overland, looking for weak points and deploring what they and Europeans thought were wasted possibilities in California’s under-exploited amenities.

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It was nominally held to mark the 75th anniversary of the World Championship, but one imagines F1 owners Liberty Media may well be pushing for a repeat after this.

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While overall homelessness was still nominally up in California, chronic homelessness, long the driving force of the state’s increases, decreased slightly in California last year, but ticked up across the nation.

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Based on current state law, units made vacant are still nominally under rent control, but a landlord is free to set the new starting rent at any amount they want.

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Belarus, a nominally independent European nation but now almost completely in-step with Moscow, was used as a launch pad to attack Ukraine.

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