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  • adverb In an inanimate manner.

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Examples

  • "An average American is now served by machines whose capacity is about 1 million times greater than that of inanimately energized machines serving an average Roman."

    Book Review Steve Forbes 2010

  • March 28th, 2008 at 10: 28 pm individual dental plans says: individual dental plans inanimately lance, squares. brickbat:

    Think Progress » Much bigger than the Dukestir. 2006

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    Think Progress » Iraqi Leaders Call On U.S. To Set Timetable 2005

  • ‘It makes no difference,’ said Mountclere inanimately.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

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    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Rise of the Blogs: 2004

  • About noon the lady came in, with six shop clerks after her, bearing packages, tossed off her head-dress, and flung herself inanimately on the sofa.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • Nawin was like any raw meat that the gecko had caught before; but never before had any of its prey skinned itself and by its own volition lay before it as inanimately as any torn, half uneaten comestible.

    An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

  • 'It makes no difference,' said Mountclere inanimately.

    The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884

  • 'Here is the true description of her: -- The ordinary English lady; the clear cold blue eyes, the fine rosy complexion, the inanimately polite manner, the large good-humoured mouth, the too plump cheeks and chin: these, and nothing more.'

    The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice 1879

  • She was in the contest of the two men, however inanimately she might be lying overhead, and the assurance in her mind that neither of them would give ground, so similar were they in their tenacity of will, dissimilar in all else, dragged her this way and that till she swayed lifeless between them.

    Beauchamp's Career — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

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