substantive
Nothing had changed substantively between March 4th and March 13th.
When does hiding information become substantively different from lying?
If people are to accept responsibility for outcomes, they will insist upon being substantively included in the decision process.

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Examples of substantively

substantively
Thus, to preserve generality, this concept is not explicated substantively in the body of our theory.
High income-earners criticised the level of unemployment benefits and social assistance substantively less than low-income earners.
I re-estimated the models with the new measure as a robustness check and the results are substantively the same.
Intent guarantees the acts to be substantively what they appear to be on the outside.
Our study shows that access to forests for fuelwood is substantively important to local people.
Then criticism (and subsequent responses) are appropriately directed substantively and in detail towards the specific type and operation of the ideal.
Were the bivariate effect not to flow through 1998 threat perceptions, the relationship would be difficult to explain substantively.
First, considering the sampling and probabilistic characteristics of data analysis, the difference between the direct and indirect effects may well be statistically and substantively insignificant.
When introduced in the model the results were not substantively or statistically significant.
The finding is substantively identical if one substitutes the median and interquartile range for the mean score plus or minus one standard deviation.
The continuing effects of substantively complex work on the intellectual functioning of older workers.
Clearly there is, concretely, a practice of theory, with concrete structures such as individuals and schools of thought more or less substantively engaged with it.
This is more substantively significant than estimated effects for any other variable except levels of income.
The engraving simplifies some detail but is substantively identical.
In addition, data obtained via ratings of videotaped sessions indicate that the two interventions did differ substantively in terms of major therapeutic components.
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