Synonyms for selectively
se·lec·tive·ly

Princeton's WordNet

1. selectivelyadverb

   by selection; in a selective manner

   "we choose our students very selectively"

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1. The Israeli army:

   During the riots, IDF soldiers fired selectively towards two main instigators and hits were confirmed.

2. Elijah Cummings:

   Rather than drag out this political charade into 2016 and selectively leak portions of a closed-door interview, the Committee should schedule the public hearing, make her records public and re-focus its efforts on the attacks in Benghazi.

3. Don Crocetti:

   The use of social media is a wrench in their toolbox. It’s not that you use that same wrench for everything you do, but it’s a wrench, it’s a different-sized tool, and you have use that selectively.

4. Van Den Bosch:

   We add wood to a reactor and then we also need a catalyst, which is a specific material that will do the chemical reactions in the wood so it will selectively depolymerize our lignin material into chemicals; and then last but not least we also need solvent to extract the lignin out of the solid material and there we can use water for or also various kinds of bio-derived alcohols.

5. Niall Mottram:

   This targeted dispense technology has the potential to dramatically reduce the amount of pesticides and herbicides that we apply to crops today; potentially by up to 99 percent. It does this by selectively targeting only weeds and infestations in a whole field, so that healthy crop and soil doesn't have pesticide applied to it. Through that we can massively reduce both cost and environmental impact.