rhetorically
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- r in a rhetorical manner
`What can be done?' he asked rhetorically
- When it happens, prosecutors and FBI agents and police will feel much better knowing that they hit suspected terrorists hard, even if only rhetorically.
- Before King-Emperor George V, waiting at Buckingham Palace last week, went 100 erudite men to retell, rhetorically, the world's obligations to Baron Joseph Lister, born just 100 .
- But Howard, who has ruled Australia for more than 11 years, seems to be having a change of heart at least rhetorically.