separately
adverb
sep·a·rate·ly
ˈse-p(ə-)rət-lē 
ˈse-pərt-lē
: in a separate manner or by separate means : not together with someone or something else
She and her husband drove separately to the restaurant.
The software is sold separately from the hardware.
The professor met with each student separately.
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The justices also separately reined in orders seeking transparency at DOGE, the team once led by billionaire Elon Musk.
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Arkansas Online, 7 June 2025
The battle royale between the world’s most powerful man and its richest inhabitant appears to be mostly over, save for some residual skirmishing on the social media platforms separately owned by Trump and Musk.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 7 June 2025
Emergency responders recovered a body from the East River Friday night, the second to surface in the same day amid search efforts for two teenagers who are separately believed to have drowned last week.
—Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 7 June 2025
As the most recent common ancestor for humans and octopuses lived around 750 million years ago, experts believe that many similarities, from similar camera-like eyes to maps of neural activities, evolved separately in a process known as convergent evolution.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, ArsTechnica, 7 June 2025
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Arkansas Online, 7 June 2025
The battle royale between the world’s most powerful man and its richest inhabitant appears to be mostly over, save for some residual skirmishing on the social media platforms separately owned by Trump and Musk.
—Josh Meyer, USA Today, 7 June 2025
Emergency responders recovered a body from the East River Friday night, the second to surface in the same day amid search efforts for two teenagers who are separately believed to have drowned last week.
—Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 7 June 2025
As the most recent common ancestor for humans and octopuses lived around 750 million years ago, experts believe that many similarities, from similar camera-like eyes to maps of neural activities, evolved separately in a process known as convergent evolution.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, ArsTechnica, 7 June 2025
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“Separately.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/separately. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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