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were respectively
adverb
In a relative manner; often used when comparing lists, where the term denotes that the items in the lists correspond to each other in the order they are given.
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"were respectively" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used when referring to two or more items that have been previously mentioned, to indicate that each item is being considered separately. For example: The two boys had different goals for the summer, which were to travel and to write a novel, respectively.
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They were, respectively, the running backs Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis.
It was painted in 1804, when the French artists were, respectively, 13 and 6.
Using the daily comparison, the figures were, respectively, 24,000, 740,000 and 523,000.
His Guyanese parents, Neville, a doctor, and Elaine, were, respectively, half Swiss and half Portuguese.
They were, respectively, a billionaire and the manager of a Presidential campaign.
Their ethnic backgrounds, despite their son's middle name and birth date, were respectively English and Slovakian.
Roberts and McClung met when they were, respectively, six and seven, at school in Bury.
(Of course, those characters were, respectively, a catfish and a rainbow fish; here he's a shark).
They were, respectively, Frederic Remington (1861-1909) and Charles M. Russell (1864-1926).
Their leaders were, respectively, Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville, James Clark Ross and Charles Wilkes.
But the city stood still while those roles were respectively claimed by New York, Boston and San Francisco.
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