CONSISTENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consistently mean? 

• CONSISTENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb CONSISTENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in a systematic or consistent manner

  Familiarity information: CONSISTENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSISTENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a systematic or consistent manner

Synonyms:

consistently; systematically

Context example:

they systematically excluded women

Antonym:

inconsistently (without showing consistency)

Pertainym:

consistent ((sometimes followed by 'with') in agreement or consistent or reliable)

 Context examples 

These types of humour have consistently been linked to indicators of positive psychological well-being such as happiness, satisfaction with life, hope, etc. but also to more negative states such as depression and anxiety.

(Self-defeating humour promotes psychological well-being, University of Granada)

Those who consistently averaged less than one cigarette per day over their lifetime had nine times the risk of dying from lung cancer than never smokers.

(No safe level of smoking: Even low-intensity smokers are at increased risk of earlier death, National Institutes of Health)

The authors note that previous research has consistently shown that repeated and chronic stress damages the structure, connections, and functions of the brain’s prefrontal cortex.

(Researchers identify brain circuits that help people cope with stress, NIH)

If he would act in this sort of manner, on principle, consistently, regularly, their little minds would bend to his.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It turned out that kelp consistently showed no preference, and used urea at equal rates as ammonium.

(Giant kelp switches diet when key nutrient becomes scarce, National Science Foundation)

"We found that facial analysis services performed consistently worse on transgender individuals, and were universally unable to classify non-binary genders," said lead author Morgan Klaus Scheuerman.

(Facial recognition software has a gender problem, National Science Foundation)

The act of following a medical regimen or schedule correctly and consistently, including taking medicines or following a diet.

(Compliance, NCI Dictionary)

Issue associated with the loss of the minimum amount of energy, voltage, or current needed to consistently stimulate the heart muscle.

(Loss of Threshold Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

A group of central nervous system neoplasms with a variable amount of neuronal and, less consistently, glial differentiation.

(Neuronal and Mixed Neuronal-Glial Tumors, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

High constitutive HMGA expression is consistently observed in cancers, with increasing concentrations being correlated with increasing malignancy.

(HMGA Family Gene, NCI Thesaurus)