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Keep "netwise" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "netwise" intact in the sentence you are editing.
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
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Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.
After choosing a replacement for "netwise", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "netwise" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
4 total sentences available.
“They have also other ornaments, which they call cawles, made netwise, to the end, as I think, that the cloth of gold, cloth of silver, or else tinsel (for that is the worst), wherewith their heads are covered and attired withal […]”
Source: wiktionary
Nature, as Bacon pithily says, joins her work rather 'netwise than chainwise.'
Source: wiktionary
From Observation 2.2.1, it is evident that a placement has optimal HPWL if all its nonlocal nets can be partitioned into netwise-disjoint monotone chains with fixed endpoints. […] Starting from the placement of the real benchmark, sets of nets are identified that can be grouped together into netwise-disjoint monotone chains between well-separated fixed terminals.
Source: wiktionary
Yet despite its collapse, this long-shot to front-runner campaign stands out as the best example to date of what a netwise operation can achieve.
Source: wiktionary
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