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Princeton's WordNet

  1. anonymouslyadverb

    without giving a name

    "she wrote these letters anonymously"

Wiktionary

  1. anonymouslyadverb

    In an anonymous manner; without a name.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Anonymouslyadverb

    Without a name.

    Etymology: from anonymous.

    I would know, whether the edition is to come out anonymously, among complaints of spurious editions? Jonathan Swift.

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  1. anonymously

    Anonymously refers to actions done in a way that the individual's name or personal information is not revealed or is kept unknown. It often applies to actions where the person involved chooses not to disclose their identity, such as giving an anonymous donation, writing an anonymous letter, or posting on the internet without revealing their true identity.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Anonymouslyadverb

    in an anonymous manner; without a name

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of anonymously in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of anonymously in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of anonymously in a Sentence

  1. Dalia Racine:

    (A) man could get on that computer, anonymously, say, 'I'm coming in to go have sex with this child.' He'll fly in on a 3:00 flight, meet the child at 6:00, and be gone on the 8:00, how are we to ever find them? How are we to ever know who they are?

  2. Harlan Hill:

    It’s unsurprising that as news breaks of CNN staff admitting to a concerted media propaganda effort against Rep Gaetz, the three biggest peddlers of fake news in the business drop another non-story, is the media just going to continue running the same — anonymously ‘sourced’ — stories every day, repackaged, in order to avoid admitting the obvious ... that over the past two weeks they hyped charges and allegations that Rep. Gaetz has repeatedly denied and that there remains zero evidence of?

  3. Chris Painter:

    They say there's no honor among thieves. You would still get, I think, good leads, if [ informants ] can do State Department anonymously and they get paid anonymously, even if they're quasi state-sponsored, they might just do State Department. Because money's still king.

  4. Paul Wiener:

    But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

  5. Patrick Halley:

    The development of the internet was fundamentally a good thing for consumers, but it also makes it much easier for someone to anonymously generate millions of illegal calls, the combination of the technological ease of making illegal calls — especially outside the Patrick Halley but even within Patrick Halley — and the fact that there's profit to be made, Patrick Halley's why this keeps happening.

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