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Recent Examples of austerely
The rooms The 204 all-cream gallery-like rooms, spread over six floors, are austerely luxurious, a blank canvas for adventures.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for austerely
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When a coalition of figures assembled at a Georgetown University forum, in February, 2023, the former Crown Prince sat humbly in a row of eight, alongside two actresses, a soccer player, and an Iranian Kurdish separatist.—
Azadeh Moaveni,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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Preston and Stacy have a 45-year-long romance that began humbly and has flourished as their family and finances have grown.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
13 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Mark not so modestly held up five fingers.—
Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
18 Mar. 2026
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But until recently, just one class of drugs—called renin-angiotensin system (RAS) inhibitors—had been shown to slow progression of the illness, and even those medications were only modestly effective.—
Tara Haelle,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2026
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Such an arrest is plainly inconsistent with basic First Amendment principles.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
23 Mar. 2026
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The inference, plainly, is that is not the case at the moment.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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You could also be involved in translation efforts — which could involve literal foreign languages or simply explaining complex ideas in words everyone can understand.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Mar. 2026
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The Gators can have that effect, simply sucking the will out of opponents with two, three, four shots in a possession, but the making of this machine is significantly more complex.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
22 Mar. 2026
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“Austerely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/austerely. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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