as in unnaturally
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Adverb
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Dawn of the Dead's flood of blood-and-guts is among the most memorable in film history, if only for the unnaturally vivid shades of red.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Oct. 2025 -
Earlier video models often cheated to satisfy prompts, with objects teleporting or morphing unnaturally.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Sep. 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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Mother, the artificially intelligent taskmaster of the Weyland-Yutani corporation.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
7 Nov. 2025
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The filing comes days after Spotify was accused in another class action lawsuit of permitting massive amounts of streaming fraud on its platform, which siphons royalties from artists whose numbers aren’t artificially inflated.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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In the debt claims, individuals falsely allege government officials owe them money or property, in some cases claiming ownership of the victim’s home.—
Melody Gutierrez,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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Scientists at the military’s labs concluded that a change in the manufacturing process of some poppy seeds had led to contamination, causing service members to be falsely accused of abusing drugs.—
Lucas Waldron,
ProPublica,
6 Jan. 2026
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That shot is really fast but deceptively complicated.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
6 Nov. 2025
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The state of Texas sued Kenvue last week, accusing the company of deceptively marketing the painkiller as safe.—
Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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Throughout the movie, Lanthimos doles out pieces of backstory in short, dreamlike sequences that unfurl in black and white, artfully filling in the blanks of Teddy’s particular interest in Michelle.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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Featuring the works of artist Michael Storrings, the puzzle artfully depicts a snowy winter scene in New York City, complete with the subway line, skyscrapers, bright yellow taxis, storefronts, and of course, pedestrians strolling the streets.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Affectedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affectedly. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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