selectively
adverb/səˈlɛktɪvli/
Frequency rank: #9,403 most common English word
Meaning
in a way that carefully chooses certain things and not others
Example sentence
She reads the news selectively , choosing only the topics that interest her.
Synonyms & related words
- carefully
- deliberately
- discriminately
- specifically
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