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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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The shooting unfolded moments after Vance’s motorcade had passed through the area, though Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn previously said there is no indication the motorcade was targeted.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
7 May 2026
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Australian governments previously paid Nauru and Papua New Guinea to house asylum seekers who attempted to reach Australia’s shore by boat in squalid detention camps.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 May 2026
Adverb
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As a result, the mid-nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic increase in the creation of posts, including among tribes that had not typically made them before.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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What’s happening at home or internally becomes clearer than before.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2026
Adverb
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In Ho Chi Minh City — formerly Saigon — the Viet Cong celebrated its takeover.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2026
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Tuchman formerly led the ADL’s Center on Extremism, the group behind the annual audit, and now is director of the Nexus Center for Antisemitism at the Nexus Project, a watchdog group that promotes a more nuanced definition of antisemitism than the ADL uses.—
David Crary,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
Adverb
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By the time Game 6 rolled around, Minnesota was without star Anthony Edwards, sharpshooter Donte DiVincenzo and even Ayo Dosunmu, who had stepped up earlier in the series in the absence of the latter duo.—
Dan Santaromita,
New York Times,
2 May 2026
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News of the withdrawal was reported earlier by The New York Times, Reuters and other outlets.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
2 May 2026
Adverb
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The 76ers have come up with back-to-back resounding victories to force a Game 7 that did not look feasible a few days ago.—
Dan Santaromita,
New York Times,
2 May 2026
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Much like the demonstrations two decades ago, organizers on Friday also called for a general boycott — no school, no work, no shopping — in an effort to demand that the country put workers above billionaires by taxing the rich.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
2 May 2026
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“Anciently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anciently. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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