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adv. - In a manner of a grammatical construction in which a noun or a pronoun immediately follows and means the same as another noun or pronoun

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Usage examples (4)
  • This adjective is used appositively
  • The Frenchman made a remark to his wife that fitted in appositively enough.
  • Was I dreaming? or had I been speaking aloud, really putting the questions he answered so quickly and appositively?
  • Under the adage "you break it, you've bought it," if he derails this bill, he will for the rest of his political lifetime be appositively identified as "the senator who...
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