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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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This track has more spiral turns than any other track previously created by Andretti.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
31 Oct. 2025
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Pregnancy is difficult to detect in ancient human remains, and scientists previously believed that the composition of hard tissues was so overwhelmingly inorganic that these proteins would not be preserved or detected, Barlow said.—
Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Peter Berg, who’s directing the film, will be co-writing the project alongside Sheridan — the two are close friends and have worked together before on the movies Hell or High Water and Wind River.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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Matthew had run away once before.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
30 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Greenwood Republican Stacie Smith is seeking election to the vacant Senate District 26 seat formerly held by the late Gary Stubblefield, R-Branch, Smith announced on Thursday.—
Ella McCarthy,
Arkansas Online,
31 Oct. 2025
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Her character formerly dated Jay on the show, as well as firefighter Kelly Severide from Chicago Fire, portrayed by Taylor Kinney.—
Francesca Gariano,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Liberty Hall hired Houlihan to raise the capital for a classic direct that closed earlier this year.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
1 Nov. 2025
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Getty Images Rarely would a head coach whose team conceded seven goals in a home game just over one week earlier be described as being in a good position.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The fixture list wasn’t kind to them to begin the season, as was the case two years ago.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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McGovern, who has a background producing reality TV shows like Bar Rescue, began creating parenting content online a few years ago.—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Anciently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anciently. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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