NOMINALLY Synonyms: 71 Similar and Opposite Words

nominally

adverb

as in slightly

in a very small quantity or degree although the more expensive TV set is nominally better than the other, it's not worth the big difference in price

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Recent Examples of nominally According to court records, the club was owned by Denning Enterprises, a holding company nominally owned by Denning’s wife but controlled by Denning, from the 1990s until it was sold in January 2025. — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 14 Oct. 2026 Assuming the third spacecraft launches nominally, all three will come down before Christmas in the Koonibba Test Range in the South Australian Outback, through coordination with Varda's long-time space-mission service provider, Southern Launch. — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2026 The Crown Estate is an independent company established by Parliament to manage a vast portfolio of properties throughout the United Kingdom that is nominally owned by the sovereign during his lifetime but is operated for the benefit of taxpayers. — Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 The Crown Estate is the entity that manages lands nominally owned by the king for the benefit of taxpayers. — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026 Atlantic window is closing The Atlantic hurricane season, nominally, runs from June 1 through November 30. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 6 Oct. 2026 Anticipating what is to come, the US office of the nominally progressive Guardian signs a public letter in protest at the transphobia of its UK editorial line. — Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026 The key test was performed independently on two nominally identical devices, one at EPFL and one at the Weizmann Institute, using separate experimental setups. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026 Now companies would nominally have to compete on the merits for government contracts. — William Turton, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2026

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Roan also adds an new verse to the song, slightly changing the lyrics to reference a mediocre female suitor alongside Rodrigo’s original lines.

— Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2026
Montana's 1st District is slightly less Republican overall than the state, which voted for Trump by double digits in each of his three presidential campaigns.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026

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