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By any practical means
Answer for the clue "By any practical means ", 7 letters:
humanly
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Word definitions for humanly in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Humanly \Hu"man*ly\, adv. In a human manner; after the manner of men; according to the knowledge or wisdom of men; as, the present prospects, humanly speaking, promise a happy issue. --Sir W. Raleigh. Kindly; humanely. [Obs.] --Pope.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in the manner of human beings; "humanly possible"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, from human + -ly (2).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES humanly possible (= possible for anyone ) ▪ It is not humanly possible to work for more than fifteen hours a day. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE possible ▪ What she must do was concentrate on getting her memory ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In a human manner.
Usage examples of humanly.
So, although he may yet be a bit of a bumbler, something of a bookish boob, a man given to a bit too much drinking, and still a klutz much top humanly prone to err, let us keep sight of the fact that he is learning something of the verities of Life-for he is, above all, a man of good intentions.
Mohammed the dragoman, by birth and education a thief, by nature a sluggard, spared no effort to reach Cairo in the shortest space of time humanly possible.
Settembrini, as critic, Hans Castorp thought, and whispered as much to his cousin, would doubtless have sharply characterized what they saw as repugnant to a humanistic sense, and have scarified with direct and classic irony the prostitution of technical skill to such a humanly contemptible performance.
We have to put that impactor on exactly the prescribed profile if we humanly can.
He began his inspection of the dreary sitting room knowing full well that MI5 had been there many times before him, had vacuumed and bagged and logged every microscopic particle, used black light and Luminol on the walls and furniture looking for blood spatter and done as thorough a job as was humanly possible.
And they had to pause to rest and drink, for Murg could get thirstier more often than seemed humanly possible, and shortness of breath was among his many failings.
Warren Commission attempted to move this time back beyond 1:15 to plausible claim Oswald had reached the Tippit murder scene in a more humanly possible time-frame than would be the case if Tippit had the encounter with his murderer any earlier.
Homeric, a humanly convincing postlude to a strained and ominously failed day.
The fact that your President, at the eager prompting of the Chiefs of Staff, the entire Pentagon, the NSA and your own Director, have ordered us to rescue the airframe if we humanly can?
Nothing less than an integration of that life itself, globally, through a single awareness, could make it flourish in a span humanly, rather than geologically, meaningful.
His personal security was as tight as he could humanly make it, but what about the Nervi holdings scattered around Europe?
She had to put as much distance between herself and the Earl of Shelldrake as swiftly as was humanly possible .
No stopping of the Tracts can, humanly speaking, stop the spread of the opinions which they have inculcated.
If the effects of the alien weapon corresponded at all closely to those of its humanly produced counterparts, a more central charge should have killed him quickly.
Rest assured that I shall get your rustbucket off my Base as soon as is humanly possible.