Used in a Sentence

conventionally

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for conventionally.

Editorial note

Fighting the US conventionally means you lose all your shit in 48 hours.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

Ordinarily, by convention.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of conventionally gathered in one view.

adverb

Ordinarily, by convention.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for conventionally.

adverb

Ordinarily, by convention.

Example sentences

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Fighting the US conventionally means you lose all your shit in 48 hours.

2

Ships are conventionally female in British English, so are cars in some circles, but there is nothing grammatical about it.

3

Model helicopters conventionally used a mechanical flybar in order to make the helicopter less responsive to inputs and more controllable.

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Local computing devices—especially those that conventionally run Windows (desktop PCs and laptops)—are extremely capable.

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But more conventionally, there is a different thought process in enterprise IT and what I call industrial IT.

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Either conventionally powered, solar powered, or simply towed from the ground along roads?

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Then if the translation unit has changed, it is compiled, conventionally.

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It might be the Britishness:) I would actually be a bit sad if a more conventionally glib landing page converts better.

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- it's an imitation of OTP mechanism but has nothing to do with how OTP is conventionally implemented.

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The indefinability theorem is conventionally attributed to Alfred Tarski.

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> So instructed, Vapnik’s computer was able to recognize handwritten numbers with far less training than is conventionally required.

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Ctrl-C conventionally does not kill shell-like things.

Quote examples

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That is anyway the conventionally understood definition of "pick a real number uniformly at random between 0 and 1".

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Conventionally, the air forces designated as "the target area" a circle having a radius of 1,000 feet around the aiming point of attack.

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I have my mac set to "natural" scrolling and for me the demo scrolls conventionally.

Proper noun examples

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Conventionally audio engineers won't try for above/back of head sounds in stereo but they're possible (samples exist online), if you're wearing headphones or standing in the exact intended position.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use conventionally in a sentence?

Fighting the US conventionally means you lose all your shit in 48 hours.

What does conventionally mean?

Ordinarily, by convention.

What part of speech is conventionally?

conventionally is commonly used as adverb.