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The word "selectively" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe an action that is done with careful choice or discrimination. Example: "The committee selected candidates selectively to ensure the best fit for the position."
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Selectively
adverb
In a selective manner, only affecting or applying to some selected cases.
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Related: Charlie Hebdo row leads to Facebook fallout between Salman Rushdie and Francine Prose The letter, printed in full on The Intercept, says that by selecting Charlie Hebdo, PEN is "valorising selectively offensive material: material that intensifies the anti-Islamic, anti-Maghreb, anti-Arab sentiments already prevalent in the western world".
This week the National Front selectively targeted elected representatives from Anwar's party in a questionable roundup by the anti-corruption agency.
Where most new buildings wrap themselves in cladding, this selectively reveals its structure and workings, in a way that allows different degrees of scale, and of strength and delicacy, from sheer glass to robust steel, to the filigree workings of lifts.
While abolitionist groups scaremonger and selectively use statistics, I'm with the sex work advocacy groups that are fighting for our labour rights with increasing visibility in the media.
It selectively quoted remarks Johnson had made about what shadow chancellor Ed Balls's spending plans meant for the deficit and the national debt.
The argument is also selectively applied.
Obligingly, internet users who know they are being watched are more likely to exercise self-censorship in the first place.In addition some authoritarian states selectively block access to foreign websites that carry politically sensitive content, along with shutting down or harassing domestic opposition websites.
You argue that the prior Millennium Development Goals had a decent record because they selectively focused on poverty reduction and a limited number of socio-economic goals.
If it is promising, it is selectively bred with other fit offspring to see if the results, when subject to further mutation, can do even better.The idea of evolutionary algorithms is not new.
But it is hard to avoid suspicions that the rules may be applied selectively to eliminate successful PPP candidates.A new constitution, narrowly passed in a recent referendum, reduces the number of lower-house seats from 500 to 480.
Information is selectively leaked to reporters before the accused come to trial, often creating a presumption of guilt that is difficult to reverse, whether in court or in the public mind.
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