How to Use exceedingly in a Sentence
exceedingly
adverb- The crime rate is exceedingly high.
- The weather was exceedingly cold.
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Okay, let’s make sure that stakes on all of this are exceedingly high.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
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Broad swaths of ocean all around the globe also are exceedingly warm.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
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Three-peats are exceedingly rare in sports, not just in hockey.
—Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022
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Throughout this press run, she's been exceedingly on-theme with her looks.
—Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 31 Mar. 2026
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Time, of course, felt exceedingly slow.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
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Kimes has been able to do something that is exceedingly rare in our business.
—Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
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In fact he's looked like someone who is exceedingly eager to get back to work with his team.
—Jim Ayello, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2021
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My small cat is exceedingly damp, So dive in, a great place to encamp.
—Washington Post, 15 July 2021
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It just gets scrambled up into some form that’s exceedingly hard to read.
—Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
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But to be a high school coach one year and a major-college head coach the next is exceedingly rare.
—Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 30 Nov. 2022
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By the same token, claims about its finances are exceedingly easy to fact-check.
—Catherine Baab, Quartz, 19 May 2025
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Sewell is one of the true blue chips of this class, and those are exceedingly rare on the offensive line.
—Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 30 Apr. 2021
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None of this is evidence of fraud, which is exceedingly rare.
—BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
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Paul has played exceedingly well, has been the team leader, and the Suns now sit tied for first in the west.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2021
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And an exceedingly rare example of the latter just went up for sale.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2022
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This may be one of the reasons that shootings are exceedingly rare in Japan.
—New York Times, 9 July 2022
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An exceedingly small number, Fu said, went to bed very late and woke up very early.
—Shayla Love, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
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Only if all the stars aligned, but while his ceiling might not be extreme, his floor is exceedingly high.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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The waiters are exceedingly handsome here as well, but skip the pita bread.
—Laura Ness, Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2026
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Except, in this instance, our hero’s skills take the form of an exceedingly rare disease.
—Gregory Nussen, Deadline, 8 Mar. 2025
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The rooms are on the smaller side, but still exceedingly cozy and comfortable.
—Rachel King, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2022
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Hot Jupiters are gas giants that orbit exceedingly close to their star.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 6 May 2026
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The letter was exceedingly Fed-y, which is to say balanced, sober, tepid.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
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The second booster drops the risk from exceedingly small to … even smaller.
—al, 4 Feb. 2022
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An exceedingly rare version of a luxury icon is about to hit the auction block.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2024
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Among economists, the view of the near-term future is exceedingly bright.
—Don Lee Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
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The quaint term belies the exceedingly hazardous nature of their work.
—Siddharth Kara, CNN, 17 Dec. 2021
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The waiting is the hardest part Some of your stories were about exceedingly long waits just to get a car.
—Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
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