Definition of "prophylactically" []

• Preventively. (adverb)

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• "Last night, before the Snowpocalypse started, but not before the panic, we got on the subway with a lot of other prophylactically bundled-up and snow-booted people and went to see Measure for Measure at the Duke theatre."
• "They remarked, prophylactically, that there were no female —"
• "Subsequently, on Dec. 23, the French Ministry of Health advised the estimated 30,000 French women with PIP implants to have their implants removed prophylactically, and France has said it will bear the cost of those procedures."