necessarily
adverb
nec·es·sar·i·ly
ˌne-sə-ˈser-ə-lē 
1
: of necessity : unavoidably
The audience was necessarily small.
This endeavor necessarily involves some risk.
2
: as a logical result or consequence
… a holocaust is a disaster, but a disaster is not necessarily a holocaust.—
Harry Shaw
Harry ShawExamples of necessarily in a Sentence
the argument that the existence of the universe necessarily implies the existence of an all-powerful being responsible for creating it
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
General manager Doug Armstrong hasn’t been shopping him necessarily, but has been fielding interest.
—Jeremy Rutherford, The Athletic, 5 Mar. 2025
Any agreement would necessarily depend on hammering out consensus on particularly thorny issues, including the contours of the territorial division and cooperation agreements.
—Hannah Rae Armstrong, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2025
This will necessarily include discussion, too, of how to replace the American nuclear umbrella on which Europe has long relied.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for necessarily
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“Necessarily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/necessarily. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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