as in immediately
in person and usually privately
the hostess told me personally that I was invited
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Telling a story about a woman and mother at odds with society and its conventions, someone who tries to stay free even in the most impossible of circumstances, is very important to me both personally and politically.
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Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 10 Sep. 2024
Such systemic changes will of course affect us personally too: An order for fresh groceries or a new phone may be delivered by drone within minutes.
—Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2024
But his early appointments to the Politburo, including Luong Tam Quang, whose father was a bodyguard for Lam’s father, and deputy prime minister positions betray a preference for anointing allies loyal to him personally rather than to any of the party’s factions.
—Huong Le Thu, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2024
The search for personally resonant principles was reinterpreted as a tactic not to overcome self-interest but to advance it.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 10 Sep. 2024
Such systemic changes will of course affect us personally too: An order for fresh groceries or a new phone may be delivered by drone within minutes.
—Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2024
But his early appointments to the Politburo, including Luong Tam Quang, whose father was a bodyguard for Lam’s father, and deputy prime minister positions betray a preference for anointing allies loyal to him personally rather than to any of the party’s factions.
—Huong Le Thu, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2024
The search for personally resonant principles was reinterpreted as a tactic not to overcome self-interest but to advance it.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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“Personally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/personally. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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