as in expensively
in a luxurious manner
a richly decorated penthouse that showed off the owner's art collection to its best advantage
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Recent Examples of richly
Then, each June, on the Feast of Corpus Christi, the town’s traditional dresses—richly decorated, pleated, and baroque in their ornamentation—are brought back into the light.
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Catherine Tansey,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 June 2026
Employees at SpaceX have worked remarkably hard over the last 24 years, and now they will be richly compensated for having done so.
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Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
12 June 2026
Much like life across Africa, the exhibition was layered, textured, richly sensual, and at times confrontational.
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Thomas Rom,
ARTnews.com,
8 June 2026
Every day, visitors arrive to dress in robes richly embroidered with phoenixes and adorn themselves with jade and pearl pendants and gold fingernail guards like those worn in imperial China.
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ABC News,
30 May 2026
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Catherine Tansey,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 June 2026
Employees at SpaceX have worked remarkably hard over the last 24 years, and now they will be richly compensated for having done so.
—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
12 June 2026
Much like life across Africa, the exhibition was layered, textured, richly sensual, and at times confrontational.
—
Thomas Rom,
ARTnews.com,
8 June 2026
Every day, visitors arrive to dress in robes richly embroidered with phoenixes and adorn themselves with jade and pearl pendants and gold fingernail guards like those worn in imperial China.
—
ABC News,
30 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for richly
Adverb
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Rather than giving the Tony to shows that will stay, Broadway seems to support pieces that can sell tickets expensively and quickly.
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But the latter can also make life expensively miserable for the former.
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The palate is smooth and approachable, with sweet grain and buttery biscuit notes leading into a luxuriously soft, elegant finish.
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Its luxuriously soft drop-waist style and stretchy strapless top leave room for endless wear, whether as a maxi dress or folded down to be a maxi skirt.
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Brady Christensen, who can play all five offensive line spots, looms large on the free-agent market.
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With the back-to-back deaths of the district's representative, who were both in their 70s, age loomed large over the race, especially as younger Democrats push for a new generation of candidates.
Adverb
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Your composition captures flowers, chamoy and other candies and fruit sumptuously arranged in and around a ceramic jar from LACMA’s permanent collection.
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The kind of experience these companies curate manages to be sumptuously luxe and transformatively meaningful—and offers plenty of swashbuckling tales to tell.
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As extravagantly decorated as the guest rooms, Azure’s blue and white interiors would be a great date-night choice—a combo of watching the sun sink below the horizon, excellent cuisine and fabulous wines (try something from the owners’ South African estate, Bouchard Finlayson).
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In July 2024, Rinderknecht demanded the chatbot generate an image that showed wealthy elites dining extravagantly on one side of a wall while the world burned beyond the barricade.
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On board, the common areas were opulently decorated with monumental staircases and picture windows overlooking a half-mile-long beach.
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Jackie Jackson is opulently dressed for a football game, diamonds blazing on both hands, chandelier earrings, and black high heels under her trousers.
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The 10 runs topped the team’s previous high for an inning this season of nine in the fourth inning on May 22 in San Francisco.
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Here’s more on the true crime genre, and a list of high-ranking true crime podcasts for June 2026.
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Sulwhasoo's Gentle Cleansing Foam creates a rich lather that removes dirt, oil, and makeup without stripping skin, while ingredients like ginseng, orange peel, chestnut shell, and yam root leave your complexion soft, balanced, and comfortably hydrated.
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The cooling stations are large 20 foot by 25 foot container boxes hooked up to a generator that can comfortably fit about 20 people, Spearo said.
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“Richly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/richly. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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