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• The docket also handles crimes that might violate city ordinances but do not necessarily amount to breaking state law, according to the court website.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2024
• And so that’s what hurt the most, not necessarily the fight with Rocky and Ivan at the hospital.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2023
• The people who are not necessarily in front of the camera, and that means a lot.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
• Not to mention that, at the end of the day, the face wash is just getting rinsed off and washed down the sink, not necessarily the best place to spend your money.
  — Melanie Rud, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
• But that’s not necessarily to say that the way that people are saving is wrong, right?
  — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2024
• Today, due partly to the lack of tax-free shopping, that’s not necessarily the case.
  — Samantha Conti, WWD, 22 July 2024
• And, in any case, the agency is not necessarily the final arbiter of what shape a pyramid can take.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2024
• But to prop up that narrative, the defense need not necessarily put Bankman-Fried on the stand.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• Others note the decline in birth rates may not necessarily be a bad thing.
  — TIME, 1 Mar. 2024
• So if the purpose is not necessarily in the specific science of what’s causing the disgust, what’s the goal of a metric like this?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2023
• All the media industry has to do is create more of it — not necessarily the simplest of tasks.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
• That’s not necessarily the norm: bookings often are handled entirely through texts and emails, and that’s the way many clients like it.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 27 July 2023
• But the past few years of Trump, Trump, Trump have taught me, if nothing else, that hoping for the best is not necessarily a winning strategy.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2023
• While not necessarily redeemed in the film, Domingo’s Mister is rendered in a new light by the closing song.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
• The Pacific Northwest was full of great bands in the early ‘90s, but Boise, Id., was not necessarily on anybody’s radar as the next hot music scene.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 21 Sep. 2024
• Some experts warn that the takeover would not necessarily improve the lives of Gabonese citizens.
  — Sira Thierij, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2023
• This vision of identity as plural means that self-assertion does not necessarily come at the expense of the rest of the world.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
• The out-of-the-box vanilla ChatGPT would not necessarily have done that kind of pattern matching.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Now, adding money to the economy is not necessarily a bad thing.
  — David Trainer, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
• Each artist has their unique strategy, and what worked for him in the past, like surprise album drops, may not necessarily yield the same results every time.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2023
• This sort of issue is not necessarily about money out of [the studios’] pocket.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2023
• While Trump is still expected to come out on top, some analysts have said Haley does not necessarily need to beat him in Iowa.
  — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2024
• This would not necessarily involve kicking out all the Jews.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 20 Nov. 2023
• After all, each of us has certain needs and habits, which do not necessarily coincide with those of the other person.
  — Veronica Cristino, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
• And sharing a harsh truth is not necessarily an act of violence.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
• What Misty gives you on the surface is not necessarily what's underneath.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Apr. 2023
• Stanford’s researchers said the presence of CSAM does not necessarily influence the output of models trained on the dataset.
  — Emilia David, The Verge, 20 Dec. 2023
• Astronomical seasons start and end at roughly the same time every year but not necessarily on the same date from year to year.
  — The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2024
• The firm has promised to reuse at least a portion of the building — though not necessarily as a hotel — in its future development plans.
  — Catherine Carlock, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
• That ship might sail Eastern or Western Caribbean itineraries for a few months, but not necessarily the entire year.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024