as in unnaturally
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Slender Man himself emerged years earlier, in 2009, from a chilling online illustration depicting an unnaturally tall, faceless figure with long, tentacle-like limbs.—
Jessica Sager,
PEOPLE,
24 Nov. 2025 -
The title refers to the series' universal optimism pandemic that has somehow swept the planet, creating one unnaturally cheerful global society out of the planet's billions of inhabitants.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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What can be said about the Kalimotxo that hasn’t been pretentiously asserted by an undergraduate who just learned about it?—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
11 Oct. 2025
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This term means to praise someone excessively and insincerely.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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For instance, Salt River Project and ASU have parked a device atop a cooling tower in one of the utility’s power plants, leveraging the artificially humid environment around the tower to sip on some of the escaping vapor.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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The company shipped patients excessive volumes of devices each month, using these fraudulent billings to artificially inflate the company’s financial reporting and its stock price, the government alleged.—
Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
22 Jan. 2026
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Some families were reportedly subjected to threats and pressure to falsely attribute responsibility for the killings to protesters.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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According to prosecutors, Burkhalter falsely said those investments were backed by real estate holdings.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Despite the promise of AI and imaging, Lam argues that some of the most critical breakthroughs are deceptively simple.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
5 Feb. 2026
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The ingredients and instructions were deceptively simple.—
Jamila Robinson,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
3 Feb. 2026
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When medicine can't treat her cancer, a dying youngster (Zelda Adams) reaches out to a forest witch (Toby Poser) who uses dark magic to cheat death, but there's a serious cost involved in this rich and artfully crafted scary movie.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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The scenes at the reunion are simply but artfully shot in black and white, including a revealing conversation the men’s wives and partners have about living with them that gently expands the perspectives brought into the film’s portrait.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Affectedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affectedly. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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