as in solely
for nothing other than his best paintings are the ones that he did exclusively for the sheer pleasure they gave him

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Recent Examples of exclusively Designed exclusively for the 2024 Mac Mini M4, this Stand & Hub matches the size and look of the new Mac Mini M4 perfectly. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024 Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story premieres Tuesday, Dec. 3, exclusively on Peacock. Abigail Adams, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024 Rise, a startup that enables companies to pay contractors using stablecoins, raised $6.3 million in Series A funding, the company tells Axios exclusively. Lucinda Shen, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024 Luciano has exclusively played either second base or shortstop in the majors and minors. Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for exclusively 
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Adverb
  • Research and development expenses were eliminated following a business model shift to focus solely on manufacturing for Medtronic, compared to $2.8 million in the previous year.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
  • But this technology isn’t solely restricted to neuroscience labs, and the applications aren’t limited to health care.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
Adverb
  • Travis Hunter had several Heisman moments but only a mediocre day receiving by his standards (five catches for 55 yards).
    Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
  • Nichols was staying alone in the motel and had only been there a short time, Westminster police said in the time following her death.
    City News Service, Orange County Register, 16 Nov. 2024
Adverb
  • The literal collaging in her work complements and sometimes contradicts her purely painterly juxtapositions.
    Barry Schwabsky, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Any prices or levels shown are either historical or purely indicative.
    Katie Stockton, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
Adverb
  • Stamper has said footage taken just before the shooting shows Stines using his own phone to make a call, then using the judge's phone to make a call.
    Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The building is just a few blocks away from the brewery at 1625 Central Parkway, which is the main production brewery for Samuel Adams beers, according to the company.
    Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2024
Adverb
  • Iran possessing nukes represents an existential threat to Israel’s security in a way that terror groups—despite their horrific actions—simply never did.
    Carrie A. Lee, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Murakami isn’t so much a novelist as a fictional anthologist, collating various monologues delivered by his characters; some of these are riveting narratives in their own right, but many simply serve to explain what’s going on or clumsily advance the plot.
    Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024

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“Exclusively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exclusively. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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