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Recent Examples of amicably
Earlier this month, KG and JYP USA announced that both parties had settled the lawsuit and parted amicably.
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Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Hopefully, these two can come to a peaceful agreement and raise their little king amicably.
—Essence, 21 Aug. 2025
Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Hopefully, these two can come to a peaceful agreement and raise their little king amicably.
—Essence, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for amicably
Adverb
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The Villarreal friendly offered a glimpse of both the potential and the challenge.—
Sukhman Singh,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2025
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Lionel Messi in Las Vegas for an Inter Miami friendly shone a light on how sport is gravitating towards Nevada and the Strip.—
Phil Hay,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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As his profile began to grow on Grand Cayman, Santor became known for securing the best tables at restaurants and riding a scooter through island traffic, blithely ignoring suggestions to put on a helmet.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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She is described, variously, as quirky, impassive, naive, vulgar, blithely optimistic.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
20 Aug. 2025
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The individual is regarded as inseparable from the omnipresent state, a subordinate position which most seem to gladly embrace.—
Uriel Kon
September 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
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As lead researcher Jan Vermant noted, there is still room for improvement, and the team would gladly assist brewers in perfecting their craft.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Aug. 2025
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The first trailer just dropped and the film looks as grimly compelling as its predecessor, while hopefully also retaining something of the 2025 film's heart.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
3 Sep. 2025
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However, this season also features pre-tapped sketches from Dan Bulla, which will hopefully return for season 51.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Rico Henry and Keane Lewis-Potter, both standing at 5ft 6in (170cm), were rather optimistically tasked with tracking the 6ft 3in (191cm) Chris Wood.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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The market-research firm MoffettNathanson did not read that language optimistically.—
Rob Pegoraro,
PC Magazine,
19 Aug. 2025
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But Wolfe’s good point, in his writing on architecture, was that there was an immense reservoir of idiomatic American style that deserved to be taken as seriously—or, more to the point, as joyfully—as any European art-school dogma.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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Daniel Megias/Getty Images From just lying down and looking bored, the scene shifts to Waffles joyfully running and playing in a yard with the new puppy.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Amicably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amicably. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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