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Recent Examples of anciently
Tell El-Fara’in, anciently known as Imet, was a significant urban and religious hub from the Middle Kingdom onward.
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Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
Eleven miles west, crossing the Piave again but this time onto flatter lands, grown in the anciently rural Tezze di Piave, Cecchetto’s Raboso wines match Prosecco’s acidic presence as instead vertical reds complex with pine, wild berries, and spicy notes.
—Susan H. Gordon, Phd, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
It was used anciently as a preservative, a seasoning, and medicinally for its antibacterial properties.
—Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2024
In several of the poesie paintings, Titian cast the faces of his protagonists in shadow, obscuring our sense of their inner lives, making them at once more anciently remote and more humanly familiar.
—Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
Eleven miles west, crossing the Piave again but this time onto flatter lands, grown in the anciently rural Tezze di Piave, Cecchetto’s Raboso wines match Prosecco’s acidic presence as instead vertical reds complex with pine, wild berries, and spicy notes.
—Susan H. Gordon, Phd, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
It was used anciently as a preservative, a seasoning, and medicinally for its antibacterial properties.
—Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2024
In several of the poesie paintings, Titian cast the faces of his protagonists in shadow, obscuring our sense of their inner lives, making them at once more anciently remote and more humanly familiar.
—Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anciently
Adverb
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin previously said multiple bills related to carriage horses were expected to move through the legislative process.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
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Those who have been vaccinated or previously had measles are likely protected against the disease.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
Adverb
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Beijing — When US and Israeli bombs first began falling on Iran at the end of February, China’s leaders were staring at the very real possibility of another friendly regime being decapitated, much like had happened with Venezuela only weeks before.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
20 June 2026
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The vampire at the center of Rice’s beloved novels has flirted with music before.—
Precious Fondren,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2026
Adverb
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These small towns formerly relied on coal mining, steelworks and manufacturing for work, local historian Peter Fleetwood tells CNN.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
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The American South will have a new and expanded museum to visit come December 6, when Tennessee’s Memphis Art Museum (formerly the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art) reopens.—
Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
17 June 2026
Adverb
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Friday night’s game marked a triumphant return for starting pitcher Seth Lugo, who nine days earlier took a comebacker off his forehead against the Texas Rangers.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
20 June 2026
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Minutes earlier, Freeman had been lying in the grass after colliding with an Australian player.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
20 June 2026
Adverb
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Centrist Paz took office seven months ago, inheriting the country’s worst economic crisis in a generation that helped propel the end of nearly two decades of leftist rule.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
20 June 2026
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Café Momentum just opened a few years ago in Downtown Pittsburgh, and it's already been rated one of the best in western Pennsylvania by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.—
Josh Taylor,
CBS News,
20 June 2026
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“Anciently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anciently. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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