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GLOBALLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Throughout the world

Example:

this is globally significant

Synonyms:

globally; internationally

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

global (involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With respect to the whole earth

Example:

think globally, not locally

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

global (involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope)

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 Context examples: 

Eating toxic mushrooms causes more than 100 deaths a year, globally, and leaves thousands of people in need of urgent medical assistance.

(New Test Identifies Poisonous Mushrooms, Agricultural Research Service)

Antimicrobial resistance has become a major threat to public health globally with approximately 700,000 people a year dying from antimicrobial-resistant infections.

(Toothpaste and Hand Wash Are Causing Antibiotic Resistance, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The year-to-date (January–March) globally averaged temperature was also record high.

(March 2015 and first quarter of year warmest on record, NOAA)

An increase in temperature that occurs globally such as the interglacial warming period the earth experienced after the last Ice Age, or that predicted to result from human increases in greenhouse gases.

(Global warming, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

The team suspects that these hydroxyl groups exist globally across the asteroid in water-bearing clay minerals, meaning that at some point, Bennu’s rocky material interacted with water.

(NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Discovers Water on Asteroid, NASA)

Globally, more than 2 million people die each year because of little or no access to dialysis or kidney transplantation.

(Managing diabetes key to lowering kidney disease, SciDev.Net)

The virus causes about 200,000 deaths globally each year.

(Using a smartphone to detect norovirus, National Science Foundation)

The amount calculated in the study is similar to emissions from the Arctic tundra, or emissions from all oceans combined, or the total volume of methane emitted from wild animals and termites globally.

(Amazon trees are major source of methane emission, SciDev.Net)

A globally unique identifier deployed by systems that are compatible with the caGrid.

(caBIG Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists know that urea has a persistent presence in the coastal ocean, not only off the coast of California but in coastal oceans globally.

(Giant kelp switches diet when key nutrient becomes scarce, National Science Foundation)