as in individually
not together with someone or something else
The software is sold separately from the hardware. Store the raw meat separately so it doesn't contaminate the other food. The professor met with each student separately.
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Recent Examples of separately
The anecdote dovetails with one of Brown’s most important moves in his eight-year mayoral tenure: persuading voters in 1998 to change Oakland’s laws so that the mayor could skip City Council meetings and run the government separately.
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Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 6 June 2025
Outside of rehearsals, Biel says, the actors got into the right mental state for their characters separately.
—Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2025
Earlier death tolls given separately by regional authorities and rescuers had put the number of dead at 13.
—Reuters, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2025
That’s more beneficial than selling the investment and paying taxes on the gain while separately writing a check to charity.
—Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
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Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 6 June 2025
Outside of rehearsals, Biel says, the actors got into the right mental state for their characters separately.
—Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2025
Earlier death tolls given separately by regional authorities and rescuers had put the number of dead at 13.
—Reuters, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2025
That’s more beneficial than selling the investment and paying taxes on the gain while separately writing a check to charity.
—Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for separately
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“Separately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separately. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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