Used in a Sentence

liberally

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for liberally.

Editorial note

San Francisco can't point to progress on many of the social issues it spends liberally to tackle Oh really?

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Quick take

In a liberal manner; generously; freely.

Meaning at a glance

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

adverb

In a liberal manner; generously; freely.

adverb

In accordance with political views associated with the liberals.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for liberally.

Example sentences

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San Francisco can't point to progress on many of the social issues it spends liberally to tackle Oh really?

2

This basically liberally sprinkles the source location of the original form over the nodes of the macro-expansion.

3

It turns out the Firefox and Chromium, both liberally licensed projects, usurped Internet Explorer's monopoly on browsers.

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Under what circumstances would you ever be unable to copy such a small and liberally-licensed file into your source?

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K, most of the major roads (motorways/dual carriageways)have average speed cameras liberally placed on the road.

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K, most of the major roads (motorways/dual carraigeways)have average speed cameras liberally placed on the road.

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This is interesting, since the piece by Mike Isaac was already very liberally biased.

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Spot on, most software gets disapproved simply for being open source or liberally licensed.

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Most major roads definitely do _not_ have average speed cameras placed liberally along them.

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But they need to also be spreading around full copies quite liberally.

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I like free discourse but racism is too much (same for misogyny although that label is applied too liberally these days).

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Blog posts and the liberally licensed open source software itself.

Quote examples

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Sorry to offend; I was referencing the "We require Mac OS X" part more liberally.

2

If most motorway/a-road network have "average speed cameras liberally placed" along them as you and maccard claim, then presumably us driving different roads on different days would make no difference?

3

Well, if "some point in the future" is taken liberally enough, then at "some point in the future" the Sun will be a red giant whose radius is greater than Earth's orbital radius.

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"Don't be like C++" is pretty much a side effect behind much of the Bell Labs and Research Unix philosophy that values composable byte stream interfaces and liberally using a small number of abstractions.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use liberally in a sentence?

San Francisco can't point to progress on many of the social issues it spends liberally to tackle Oh really?

What does liberally mean?

In a liberal manner; generously; freely.

What part of speech is liberally?

liberally is commonly used as adverb.