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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But that also doesn’t mean that copacetic necessarily is the way to go, either.
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Kris Holt, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
But that also doesn’t mean that copacetic necessarily is the way to go, either.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 7 June 2025
Is Pony Sweat, or any other dance aerobics practice, necessarily cool in the traditional sense of the word?
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 5 June 2025
No one was necessarily asking for another cinematic universe.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 June 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 12 Jun. 2025.
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