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How to use scientifically in a sentence

20 example sentences · adverb

Scientifically means using science or methods of science. Example: “He tried to approach his bad habits scientifically.”

Examples of scientifically by meaning

adverbMethodically.

  • He tried to approach his bad habits scientifically.

adverbFrom a scientific perspective.

  • Scientifically, there's nothing special about the year 2012.

More sentences with scientifically

  • Some scientifically minded sleuths hoped that the optograms of murder victims might betray their killers!2001, Stanley Finger, Origins of Neuroscience: A History of Explorations Into Brain Function, page 82. From the entry optogram
  • Smith said a moment ago that we are scientifically adult but spiritually in short pants.1948, Albert Craig Baird, Lester Thonssen, Waldo Warder Braden, Owen Peterson, Representative American Speeches. From the entry in short pants
  • I praise Dawkins' clarity, I rejoice in Dennett's call to study religion scientifically as a natural phenomena, and I admire S.2012, Charles Crawford, Dennis Krebs, Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology, →ISBN. From the entry neoatheist
  • Subject: the scientifically p1ll for your love muscle!2004 April 24, Admini...@supernews.net, “[email] the scientifically p1ll for your love muscle!”, in news.admin.net-abuse.sightings…. From the entry p1ll
  • Goddidit is not a scientific theory, if God is assumed to be omnipotent, as omnipotence cannot be scientifically verified.Feb 2, 2001, Martijn Faassen, Can the Genetic Code be simpler?, talk.origins. From the entry goddidit
  • One of the least satisfactorily resolved aspects of MVI concerns the scientifically sound demonstratability of its connection to safety.1971, R. D. Vergara, Effects of Steering and Suspension Component Degradation on Automobile Stability and Control. Part II. Technical…. From the entry demonstratability
  • "The point is, Michael has tried to get some research going into a method of knocking off triffids scientifically.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 258. From the entry knock off
  • Baumert and his coauthors pointed out that the algorithms companies use to determine these scores are often proprietary and not scientifically vetted.2023 November 29, Markham Heid, “The Truth About Sleep Trackers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2023. From the entry coauthor
  • Properly defining and solving the alignment problem won’t be easy; it will require us to develop a broad, scientifically based theory of intelligence.2022 December 13, Melanie Mitchell, “What Does It Mean to Align AI With Human Values?”, in Quanta Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Simons…. From the entry alignment problem
  • Although at first glance combinations of two modal verbs might seem to be cases of grammatical distortion, their use is scientifically recognised.2019, Irina S. Lebedeva, Svetlana N. Orlova, “Semantics and pragmatics of the double modal ‘might could’”, in Training, Language and…. From the entry modal verb
  • Of course it was not only a coup for eugenicists, but also for less scientifically inclined racists, certain segments of organized labor, anti-Bolsheviks, and antianarchists.2003, Nancy Ordover, American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry antianarchist
  • As a featural alphabet, Hangeul bears some similarities with scientifically created writing systems invented centuries later, such as the Visible Speech system invented by Alexander Melville Bell.2015, Robert Koehler et al., Hangeul: Korea's Unique Alphabet, Seoul Selection. From the entry featural
  • When Breanna was obese, she wouldn't eat a vegetable because, according to the way her brain was wired, it was competing with the hyperpalatability of the scientifically manufactured foods.2015, Heidi Bond, Jenna Glatzer, Who's the New Kid?, page 173. From the entry hyperpalatability
  • In some cases, the presentation of this theory has been useful to stop treasure and nontreasure artifacts from being legally and scientifically recovered by the private sector.2012, Robert MacKinnon, Dallas Murphy, Treasure Hunter: Diving for Gold on North America's Death Coast, →ISBN. From the entry nontreasure
  • The worst motivation and professional circumstances for the palliator would be the slowly dawning frustration of a scientifically orientated doctor who realizes the failure of a scientific career.1994 March, Volker Diehl, “Controversies in terminal cancer care”, in Supportive Care in Cancer, volume 2, number 2. From the entry palliator
  • Once ecologists have more thoroughly identified indoor species, they hope to come up with strategies to scientifically manage homes, by eliminating harmful taxa and fostering species beneficial to our health.2013 May 27, Peter Andrey Smith, “Mapping the Great Indoors”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry ecologist
  • Thus at last mathematics is shown to be a completely contradictionless and scientifically unassailable system, and the final reduction of every mathematical proposition to the axioms of logic is completed.2004, Rudolf Metz, A Hundred Years of British Philosophy, Volume 14. From the entry contradictionless
  • It was generally added, as a rider to this, that although Marxism was scientifically true it was bound to be resisted by the possessing classes, as it prophesied their downfall.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford…. From the entry rider

Meaning of scientifically

  1. adverb Using science or methods of science.
  2. adverb Using the scientific method.
  3. adverb Methodically.

Full definition of scientifically

Questions about scientifically in a sentence

How do you use scientifically in a sentence?
Scientifically is used as an adverb. For example: “He tried to approach his bad habits scientifically.”
What is a short sentence with scientifically?
“He tried to approach his bad habits scientifically.”
What does scientifically mean?
Scientifically means using science or methods of science.

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