: in an apt manner : in a way that is fitting or appropriate
… at the edge of the vast desert aptly named the Empty Quarter …—
Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine BrooksAll her albums have famously been autobiographical, and her latest, the aptly titled Speak Now, is filled with emotionally charged songs she wrote about the past two years of her life …—Joey Bartolomeo
Joey BartolomeoPaganism in Rome fell victim not to intolerance but to the "institutionalized egotism" (to use a phrase aptly applied to the absolutist monarchy of Louis XIV) that was a central feature of the late Roman imperial system.—Peter Brown
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February's full moon, aptly named the Snow Moon, is set to rise over the weekend.
—Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 27 Jan. 2026
The biggest thing standing in its way, however, could be voters who believe Lamar was already aptly (and recently) rewarded for his stunning brilliance with his Grammy sweep last year.
—Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
Predictably, in 1975, a scant decade after the heist, Hollywood immortalized the theft by filming a fine blockbuster, starring a buff Robert Conrad as the Surf alongside a lissome Donna Mills, the aptly entitled Live A Little, Steal A Lot.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
The area is known for brutal heat with little relief; a town just up the road is called, aptly, Notrees.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
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Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 27 Jan. 2026
The biggest thing standing in its way, however, could be voters who believe Lamar was already aptly (and recently) rewarded for his stunning brilliance with his Grammy sweep last year.
—Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
Predictably, in 1975, a scant decade after the heist, Hollywood immortalized the theft by filming a fine blockbuster, starring a buff Robert Conrad as the Surf alongside a lissome Donna Mills, the aptly entitled Live A Little, Steal A Lot.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
The area is known for brutal heat with little relief; a town just up the road is called, aptly, Notrees.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
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