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there's always one person stuck with cleaning up the mess, namely me
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Musk co-founded the lab in 2015 alongside Sam Altman after the two spent weeks discussing their fears of AI falling into the hands of profit-seeking megacorporations, namely Google.
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Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
But in discharging this function, poets are in danger of slighting another imperative, namely, to redress poetry as poetry, to set it up as its own category, an eminence established and a pressure exercised by distinctly linguistic means.
—Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
And other tackles, namely Arizona State’s Max Iheanachor and Clemson’s Blake Miller, offered better short- and long-term fits as college right tackles who play with a mean streak.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
Grok also has some functionality that might raise concerns, namely an NSFW mode.
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Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
But in discharging this function, poets are in danger of slighting another imperative, namely, to redress poetry as poetry, to set it up as its own category, an eminence established and a pressure exercised by distinctly linguistic means.
—Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
And other tackles, namely Arizona State’s Max Iheanachor and Clemson’s Blake Miller, offered better short- and long-term fits as college right tackles who play with a mean streak.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
Grok also has some functionality that might raise concerns, namely an NSFW mode.
—Robert Ferris,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2026
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“Namely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/namely. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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namely
adverb
name·ly
ˈnām-lē 
: that is to say
the cat family, namely, lions, tigers, and related animals
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