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  • adverb In a situational way.

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Examples

  • Pretty much the same basis use for thinking "situationally"; we just don't bother to attribute our personal moral judgment on a deity.

    The Barefoot Bum 2009

  • He felt more anonymous than others, like even when he was present situationally he wasn't.

    The Image is Exact in my Mind but the Frame Keeps Moving Around stephen hastings-king 2011

  • We only have to compare Aristotle's almost equally simple ethics -- in which virtue is seen as a learned tendency to have appropriate feelings as a matter of disposition, a capacity to find the mean between two vices of (situationally) inappropriate excess or deficiency -- to see something infinitely subtler and more flexible, more elegant and more intelligent, more ethical simply because it is more sophisticated.

    Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy Hal Duncan 2009

  • PS — I can see this sort of thing being wickedly misused by a Liberal Fascist state just, “trying to help equalize old injustices”, with “help”, “equalize”, and “injustices” having variable content situationally ......

    The Volokh Conspiracy » More Interesting DNA Information 2010

  • We only have to compare Aristotle's almost equally simple ethics -- in which virtue is seen as a learned tendency to have appropriate feelings as a matter of disposition, a capacity to find the mean between two vices of (situationally) inappropriate excess or deficiency -- to see something infinitely subtler and more flexible, more elegant and more intelligent, more ethical simply because it is more sophisticated.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • What doesn't work is when the love scenes seem random or situationally inappropriate.

    Countdown to Branded By Fire: 4 Days to Go! Nalini Singh 2009

  • Keep in mind, too, that the hormone surges can be quite situationally dependent (in Paul's study, for example, when a random device determines how much the second person is "trusted" there is no oxytocin).

    Neuroeconomics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Riggleman could not previously commit Burnett to the seventh because Burnett may have been needed situationally against a left-handed hitter.

    Where Doug Slaten fits in 2010

  • Unlike Republicans, the parrots can learn, reason, use expressions of empathy in situationally appropriate ways, and count.

    Gingrich's Many Cap-and-Trade Distortions 2010

  • Personally I'd guess we'll use some mixture of the three, with other power sources including PV solar as a tiny, situationally specific, part of our energy solution.

    Nuclear Fusion Power Closer to Reality Say Two Separate Teams | Universe Today 2010

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