INDEPENDENTLY Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

independently

adverb

Definition of independently

as in separately

without aid or support independently came to the same conclusion

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Recent Examples of independently The president said at the time that her office had been unaware that state officials in Chihuahua and the US government were collaborating independently. — Mauricio Torres, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026 County commissioners have a responsibility to independently examine the recommendations before committing funds. — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026 Then there's LightMake's L4, which takes things further with four independently moving print heads capable of operating in parallel. — New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026 Ethiopia also has accused Eritrean troops of occupying its territory, an allegation that the AP couldn't independently verify. — Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026 Copper atoms help verify the record intensity To check the intensity independently, the team directed the X-ray pulses onto a copper foil and examined the light emitted by its atoms. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026 The film, released independently with the backing of The Guardian and MK2, sees the directors interviewing Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers, whose identities are hidden, on the civilian death toll in Gaza. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2026 The Associated Press could not independently verify the claims. — ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026 The results from the EEG session independently confirmed that, with alpha-band activity (normally a marker of the brain gating visual input) reduced by nearly half. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 Oct. 2026

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Oracle has not separately confirmed the nationwide total in a public statement.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
Williams argued that without a viable federal copyright claim, Hugo’s state-law claims involving breach of fiduciary duty and an incomplete accounting should also be dismissed, leaving him free to pursue those claims separately in state court.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of separately

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Leo presided alone over the liturgy, distributing Communion to medical personnel and Vatican gendarmes present, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
North Korea’s public announcements alone do not establish how successfully these capabilities could be employed in an actual conflict.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of alone

Adverb

Working again with the vast Northeastern producer group $$$–almost all of whom are individually credited on, like, every track–Bank$ and his preacher friend talk to God over spare keys and groaning nautical machinery.

— Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2026
Accommodations are individually decorated in tones of soothing beige, and all have marble bathrooms.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of individually

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Plant singly as an accent or mass in mixed borders and privacy plantings.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 July 2026
When eggs or embryos are destroyed as the result of commercial egg storage tank failures, lawsuits may follow, singly, as a group, or in a class action.

— Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 6 May 2026

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