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Recent Examples of alarmingly
Sometimes the dance floor is alarmingly sticky.
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The Know, Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2026
The Americans even modified a Boeing 747 to carry a huge experimental and alarmingly dangerous chemical laser designed to shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles that was more of a menace to the crew than the missiles.
—New Atlas, 17 Jan. 2026
Society has largely taken for granted that our bodies—and, perhaps most alarmingly, our brains—harbor microplastics.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Jan. 2026
That combination is proving alarmingly effective for cybercriminals.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Jan. 2026
Grief gets layered on top of grief and secrets stack sky high as suburban normalcy decays into something at once alarmingly unstable and comfortingly funny.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2025
Paul got emotional after seeing the list, and gave a short speech that was alarmingly self-aware.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2025
Most alarmingly, 79 percent lacked breach notification protocols, which means that the users may never find out if their data was compromised.
—Suleiman Saka, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Dec. 2025
That line, written decades ago, feels alarmingly current.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Dec. 2025
The Know, Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2026
The Americans even modified a Boeing 747 to carry a huge experimental and alarmingly dangerous chemical laser designed to shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles that was more of a menace to the crew than the missiles.
—New Atlas, 17 Jan. 2026
Society has largely taken for granted that our bodies—and, perhaps most alarmingly, our brains—harbor microplastics.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Jan. 2026
That combination is proving alarmingly effective for cybercriminals.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Jan. 2026
Grief gets layered on top of grief and secrets stack sky high as suburban normalcy decays into something at once alarmingly unstable and comfortingly funny.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2025
Paul got emotional after seeing the list, and gave a short speech that was alarmingly self-aware.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2025
Most alarmingly, 79 percent lacked breach notification protocols, which means that the users may never find out if their data was compromised.
—Suleiman Saka, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Dec. 2025
That line, written decades ago, feels alarmingly current.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alarmingly
Adverb
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Kirk grasped how the internet has changed America, but his death has demonstrated—and, disturbingly, may have resulted from—the fundamentally anarchic nature of those changes.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
20 Jan. 2026
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But mostly, and kind of disturbingly, people enjoyed ridiculing it.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The pipeline of new antibiotics remains distressingly thin, and most drugs currently in development are structurally similar to existing antibiotics, potentially limiting their effectiveness.—
André O. Hudson,
The Conversation,
21 Jan. 2026
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That can be forgiven thanks to the film’s evocative imagery and the emotional resonance of its central themes, distressingly familiar to anyone who has ever lost themselves in a relationship.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
10 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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There is a curious absence of any patience in exploring the forces shaping their unsettlingly growing worldview.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2026
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The book blends reportage, moral inquiry, and political analysis in a way that still feels unsettlingly contemporary fifty-four years after it was published.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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Free speech has become a major liability in a disgustingly litigious society.—
Jesse Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
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These include those who disgustingly celebrated the murder of Brian Thompson and all but beatified his alleged assassin, and those who made light of and mocked the attack on Pelosi’s family and the Minnesota lawmakers.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The last two episodes give the first real indications that the show is capable of being smartly tricky with its structure and timeline, rather than just annoyingly evasive.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Dec. 2025
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Tyler’s love for hip-hop as an art form in the purest sense of the word is almost annoyingly well-documented.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
21 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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No Diego Luna for Best Actor, no Stellan Skarsgård for Best Supporting Actor, no Elizabeth Dulau for Best Supporting Actress, and, most irritatingly of all, no Genevieve O’Reilly for Best Actress.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
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Sennott and her costars speak with an irritatingly fake affect, are shallower than a puddle in the desert and prize selfishness, indolence and artifice.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Don’t know about you, Sean Payton, but I’d be awfully tempted to run the dang ball Sunday.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
23 Jan. 2026
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Purdy runs for his life The Seahawks made things awfully difficult on quarterback Brock Purdy, who spent much of his night trying to avoid getting sacked by Seattle’s talented defensive front that was among the NFL’s best throughout the season.—
Chris Biderman,
Sacbee.com,
18 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The movie seems keen to the now-ancient and passé concept of selling out, though not terribly interested in actually reviving or adopting Gen X’s principled superstition against it.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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While Chris Pratt’s new sci-fi thriller, Mercy, is not shaping up to do terribly well at the box office, reviews are starting to come in during its opening weekend from both critics and fans.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Alarmingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alarmingly. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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