Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a tribal manner; as or with reference to a tribe.
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- adverb In a
tribal manner or context.
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Examples
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Understanding customer behavior and how we are "tribally" connected to our peers in the social networking landscape is a pretty fundamental requirement for service organizations these days if they want to influence brand perception.
Brett King: What's in a Twitter Name? That Which We Call a Customer... 2010
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Understanding customer behavior and how we are "tribally" connected to our peers in the social networking landscape is a pretty fundamental requirement for service organizations these days if they want to influence brand perception.
Brett King: What's in a Twitter Name? That Which We Call a Customer... 2010
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We ` re part of a specie that is very "tribally" oriented.
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Understanding customer behavior and how we are 'tribally' connected to our peers in the social networking landscape is a pretty fundamental requirement for service organizations these days if they want to influence brand perception.
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Under IRV, the country was carved into tribally heterogeneous single-member districts in which winning candidates needed to gain an absolute majority of votes.
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So your much bigger worry is regulators getting bought off, tribally acting in the interests of firms, and so on, but not intimidated.
Matthew Yglesias » Institutional Aspects of Regulatory Reform 2010
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A self that felt it could lick all comers and a self that was insecure, afraid of a fair fight, brave only when among large numbers of the like-minded and tribally loyal, which is to say essentially a coward?
Picketts charges 2009
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Our ancestor species, perhaps H. erectus (or maybe another), was tribally competitive, as was H. habilis before him, as was every species of Australopithecus even earlier.
What a Bunch of Apes! « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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To begin with, we live in a Federation, not a tribally-distinct geographic area or “country”.
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A self that felt it could lick all comers and a self that was insecure, afraid of a fair fight, brave only when among large numbers of the like-minded and tribally loyal, which is to say essentially a coward?
Lance Mannion: 2009
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