amazingly

adverb

amaz·​ing·​ly ə-ˈmā-ziŋ-lē How to pronounce amazingly (audio)
1
: to an amazing degree
amazingly low prices
2
: as is amazing
Amazingly, she wasn't hurt by the fall.

Examples of amazingly in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The criminal-justice reform movement has been trying to reform those and other unjust laws for years, but governments are amazingly resistant to change. Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 8 June 2024 And, amazingly, in the face of that political and cultural headwind, is where Campbell volunteered to stand and fight. Lz Granderson, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024 Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures Last night, Jennifer Lame won a well-deserved Oscar for Best Editing for her work on Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, a sprawling and amazingly fast-paced chunk of 20th-century history that somehow also managed to entertain millions. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024 The blast was powerful enough to shatter windows miles away in Manhattan and Brooklyn; amazingly, the rumble from the explosion was felt as far as Philadelphia and Baltimore. Steven Johnson, New York Times, 17 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for amazingly 

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Word History

First Known Use

1650, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of amazingly was in 1650

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“Amazingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amazingly. Accessed 20 Jun. 2024.

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