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NOTABLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a remarkable degree or extent

Example:

Notably missing from the network's fall line-up are any half-hour scripted comedies

Synonyms:

notably; remarkably; unco; unusually

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

Especially; in particular

Example:

notably in the social sciences, the professors teach too much

Classified under:

Adverbs

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 Context examples: 

In a group of healthy volunteers, the researchers showed that different brain regions that serve distinct functions have notably different power and different cost.

(Study of brain energy patterns provides new insights into alcohol effects, National Institutes of Health)

I see quite a bit of money coming to you, most notably on January 15, when Venus receives a golden beam from surprise planet Uranus.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Some have suggested that trading commodities – most notably walrus tusks – with Europe may have been vital to sustaining the Greenlanders.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)

A syndrome associated with a variety of diseases, notably systemic lupus erythematosus and other connective tissue diseases, thrombopenia, and arterial or venous thromboses, marked by the presence of antibodies directed against phospholipids.

(Antiphospholipid Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Naturally occurring flavone or coumarin derivatives having the activity of the so-called vitamin P, notably rutin and esculin.

(Bioflavonoid, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutation locations are notably at codons 12, 13, and 61.

(Mutated Ras Peptide, NCI Thesaurus)

Previous research used satellite-based measurements of vegetation greenness to investigate changes in the Amazon rainforest, notably the effects of severe short-term droughts in 2005 and 2010.

(NASA finds drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA)

A coenzyme containing pantothenic acid, adenosine 3-phosphate 5-pyrophosphate, and cysteamine; involved in the transfer of acyl groups, notably in transacetylations.

(Coenzyme A, NCI Thesaurus)

Previous space missions have already identified Europa as one of the likeliest destinations for harbouring life in our solar system, most notably because of the large seas of liquid water underneath its surface.

(Icy Warning for Space Missions to Jupiter's Moon, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Notably, differences in weight loss, which affects type 2 diabetes risk, didn’t account for these risk differences.

(Breastfeeding may help prevent type 2 diabetes after gestational diabetes, NIH)