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"separately" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often individually (12 letters).
Definitions
Apart from others or one by one.
Word origin
From separate + -ly.
Used in a sentence
“We've been living separately for three years.”
“Tackle the different parts of the climb separately before attempting the whole thing in one go.”
“Syntactically, hendiadic constructions differ from synthetonic sequences in that the latter are separate clauses, and hence are separately negatable and may have different tenses and aspects and different subjects.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“One by one”10 letters
02“Apart from others”10 letters
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