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Adverb
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Someone who anxiously lies awake at night may need stress-management strategies.—
Faye Chiu,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025 -
While Jets fans anxiously await those results, notable sports medicine physician and Injury Expertz CEO Jesse Morse believes the team could be looking at the prospect of being without their star wideout for a handful of games.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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The true death knell, however, is the fact that the mix of dreary and dreamlike — the very juxtaposition that gives Kiss of the Spider Woman its aenima and its sting — sit too uneasily next to each other, as if both halves were stuck in a separate conversation instead of talking to each other.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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For 50 years, that status quo held uneasily, as subsequent peace efforts failed.—
Mireille Rebeiz,
The Conversation,
9 Oct. 2025
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Nearing a breaking point, Linda’s caseload includes a super-depressed new mother (Danielle Macdonald) while her relationship with her own therapist (a surprisingly serious Conan O’Brien) becomes uncomfortably complicated.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
15 Oct. 2025
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The quote from the corporate community has suggested, uncomfortably, that companies either aren’t spending much or aren’t seeing much in the way of returns.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Apprehensively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apprehensively. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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