wildly
adverb
wild·ly
ˈwī(-ə)l(d)-lē 
1
: in a wild manner
was talking wildly
2
: extremely sense 2
wildly popular
wildly enthusiastic
Examples of wildly in a Sentence
He was waving his arms wildly.
I'm not wildly enthusiastic about seeing them.
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Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
The scene today is beginning to echo that of 2020, in which federal and local officials offered wildly different images of the reality on the ground.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
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Experimental data often varied wildly between labs and rarely aligned with its predictions.
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Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
The scene today is beginning to echo that of 2020, in which federal and local officials offered wildly different images of the reality on the ground.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
The series has been wildly successful for Netflix.
—Jr Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Experimental data often varied wildly between labs and rarely aligned with its predictions.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for wildly
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“Wildly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wildly. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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