separately

From separate + -ly.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛp.(ə.)ɹət.li/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛp.ɹət.li/, /ˈsɛp.ɚ.li/

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈsep.(ə.)ɹət.li/
• Hyphenation: sep‧a‧rate‧ly

separately (not comparable)

1. In a separate manner; not together; apart.

   We've been living separately for three years.

   Tackle the different parts of the climb separately before attempting the whole thing in one go.

   • 2002, Joan L. Bybee, Michael Noonan, Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse, page 152:

     Syntactically, hendiadic constructions differ from synthetonic sequences in that the latter are separate clauses, and hence are separately negatable and may have different tenses and aspects and different subjects.

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