How to Use radically in a Sentence

radically

adverb
  • His park is a net plus but not radically so.
    Michael Salfino, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • But what about an ant or a tree— or more radically, atoms and quarks?
    WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The nature of that bias has changed radically in the past year.
    James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Ukrainians are the same as you, but just over a month ago, our lives changed radically.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2022
  • And if that should drop, then that offer could radically change.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Over the past decade these ideas have radically changed how physicists think about black holes.
    Adam Becker, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
  • What a shopper wants in a store has radically shifted over the last two decades.
    NBC News, 29 Dec. 2021
  • All of that feels so far away now — now that his life is radically different.
    Mirin Fader, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • This step-change in power would be enough to radically upgrade what the chip could do.
    David Phelan, Forbes, 3 July 2021
  • But the flip from red to blue may not radically change much in the State House.
    Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The rhetoric of this era is radically different from the era of Camelot.
    Leah M. Wright, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Israel’s perception of how to deal with this threat has changed radically over the years.
    Foreign Affairs, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Friend’s crash, and survival, did not radically recast the project.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Over longer time frames, the world can evolve in ways that are more radically different from what our puny brains can imagine.
    Neil Irwin, Axios, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The game itself is now radically more wide open, the players more versatile in their skills.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
  • Nothing in the script had changed, but the frame within which people would view it was now radically altered.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The women’s game could have been set up to be radically different from the men’s version.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Your life will radically change for the better these next two years due to the recurring eclipses taking place in your sign.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, refinery29.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The plot follows two knights caught in the midst of this turmoil, which sets the young men on radically different paths.
    PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Many shared the feeling that the crash had radically changed the circumstances of their lives, setting them on a new path.
    Ellen Barry Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Trump is keenly aware that the ecology of the press has changed radically since Nixon’s day.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
  • But this year’s speech is on a radically different backdrop.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Here’s more about the album and the radically optimistic singer.
    Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 3 May 2024
  • That said, trying something unproven and radically new is risky.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025
  • But there’s no simple way to convince somebody to radically alter their life.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • This is all happening in the midst of a pandemic that has radically altered the rites around death.
    New York Times, 24 July 2021
  • Weapons evolve over the course of a war, and for the war in Ukraine the use of drones has radically altered the battlefield.
    Greg Dixon, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The Zeppelin songs have all been radically re-arranged.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Those who have worked with the star over the past several decades fall on radically different sides of that question.
    Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
  • As the sun goes down and the stars come out, the familiar rules of photography radically change.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2026

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