historically
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3.8
- adverb
- /hɪsˈtɔrɪkli/
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históricamente
- And it maybe I can ask you, historically speaking, were you impressed?
- historically accurate
- historically low
- historically underrepresented groups
It doesn't matter if our nations are historically friends or allies or not.
- It doesn't matter if our nations are historically friends or allies or not.
- But then he says, yeah, but there are certain times historically where the.
- Your vice president, Kamala Harris, is historically unpopular.
- So like they, they, they are and have been historic, historically big problems.
- People like to emulate rich people, and this is historically true.
- But by and large, those industries have been really, really historically white.
- I mean, that's what's a novel about it, historically speaking.
- My dad is historically underrated for giving me the air cover.
Examples
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Especially hard hit were Mexicanos, who historically had been at the bottom of the economic ladder.
Fiction book (1995) -
Movements for justice have historically been driven by a small percentage of any population.
Academic text (2011) -
You know, we are so close historically to that.
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And, you know, historically, the rich have always found a way.
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You see, I want it to be historically accurate.
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Historically, New York represents the future and possibility for so many immigrants.
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For the first time, Irish women's issues, which had historically been hidden, were now open to public scrutiny.
Academic text (2011) -
People like to emulate rich people, and this is historically true.
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I don't believe it's historically accurate, Miss Henscher.
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Historically, many societies have honored their ancestors through various rituals.
How Time-Based
- Specialized
- Specialized
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266
3.8
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
historically = historical (transparent) = history + ical + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to 'historical', yielding a predictable adverbial meaning.
Etymology
Historically comes from history, the same root as historic, and you can think of history like the simple English word story meaning a 'story of the past'. So, to say something historically is to talk or think 'in a way that relates to the past'.