selectively

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Etymology

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From selective +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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selectively (comparative more selectively, superlative most selectively)

  1. In a selective manner, only affecting or applying to some selected cases.
    • 2006, Markus Jakobsson, Steven Myers, Phishing and Countermeasures, page 128:
      Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests.

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