extrinsicin a sentence
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The shoulder pain originates in muscles extrinsic to the shoulder.
extrinsic = outside of
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Higher salary and other extrinsic rewards will not make her happy if she isn't intrinsically fulfilled by her work.
extrinsic = external (to the work itself)
- This is the tale of spontaneous Arabella Who ran off with an extrinsic fellow.† (source)
- This is the tale of spontaneous Arabella Who ran off with an extrinsic fellow.† (source)
- I've neither fortune, nor fame, nor extrinsic advantages of any kind.† (source)
- He unites the intrinsic and the extrinsic advantages.† (source)
- …of understanding in the shortest time all that I have learnt in so many years, and with so many troubles and dangers; which work I have not embellished with swelling or magnificent words, nor stuffed with rounded periods, nor with any extrinsic allurements or adornments whatever, with which so many are accustomed to embellish their works; for I have wished either that no honour should be given it, or else that the truth of the matter and the weightiness of the theme shall make it…† (source)