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What does extrinsic mean?

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Adjective
  1. external; separable from the thing itself; inessential
  2. not belonging to something; outside
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This study therefore explores factors that are both extrinsic and intrinsic to news organization election coverage.
To account for this consistency through transpositional evolutionary changes, both intrinsic and extrinsic factors can be evoked.
The more precisely we understand how the machine works intrinsically, the better we can deduce the contribution of extrinsic factors.
He castigates prize judges for giving the top awards to books for reasons extrinsic to literature.
Because of its observational nature, our study cannot differentiate between intrinsic or extrinsic factors in the reduced reproductive success.
In the original conception of this study, motivators were dichotomized into intrinsic and extrinsic factors.

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