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popularly

Adverb

Meaning

In a popular manner; so as to be generally favored or accepted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was popularity reported.

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. Robert Frost

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism. Desiderius Erasmus

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed. Anton Seidl

PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk. Ambrose Bierce

I find all of our world society is operating exclusively in parts. We know this because the word synergy is unknown popularly and it is the only word that means "behavior of wholes unpredicted by behavior of their parts.”. Buckminster Fuller

I chose to paint because the medium as such has a particular meaning. It is almost synonymous with what is popularly viewed as Art - art with a capital A-with all the glory, the piety, and the authority that it commands. Hans Haacke

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