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Researchers in New York have developed a radiation cancer treatment that works like one of the Pentagon's "smart bombs" by locating, invading and selectively killing cancer cells.
Hotels are raising rates selectively.
Early in the spring they wrapped the trees in varying sizes of mesh, designed to selectively keep out hummingbirds, bees and other insects.
You can selectively suspend individual Bluetooth devices, which can conserve a laptop's battery power.
He excerpts from the speech selectively and, I regret to say, carelessly.

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Examples of selectively

selectively
It should be undertaken selectively in more elderly patients.
A speaker selectively focuses on just one of a large (and possibly indeterminate) number of such factors.
It is argued that maltreated children's association of affective stimuli with traumatic experiences and memories selectively alters the meaning of emotions for these children.
He and his colleagues argue that life's events are encoded selectively depending on the current themes and goals of the self.
Increasing eccentricity selectively filters temporal frequency information, and therefore simplifies the image seen for the cortex to interpret.
To test this prediction we proceeded to investigate the impact of informativeness features selectively.
One of their guiding principles is that place and type are remembered formally and materially, and then selectively reconstructed as images specific to each project.
Submodules can also be selectively set at different levels to increase the computational efficiency of the overall system simulation.
The biocytin wide-field bipolar cell in the rabbit retina selectively contacts blue cones.
Moreover, ' forestry laws and policies are contested, circumvented, selectively applied, interpreted and reinterpreted in their making and application ' (p. 56).
Nationalism needs to sustain the collective group memory, which has been selectively and carefully constructed.
Messages sent to the server are selectively rebroadcasted to receivers that registered patterns matching the message.
Mapping quantitative trait loci in a selectively genotyped outbred population using a mixture model approach.
The results provide precise predictions for analyses of survey data for selectively neutral loci in natural populations with a given dispersal level.
Exploitive agents endowed with the ability to interact selectively succeed in defending against invasion because they induce a highly non-interactive world.
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