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Adverb
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Such coarse bravado, to put it kindly, has its admirers among the Democratic faithful.—
Isaac Schorr,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Aug. 2025 -
Ellen is Team Colum, and that endorsement gives him enough gumption to ask his brother to kindly yield.—
Lincee Ray Published,
EW.com,
8 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The titular sisters of this expansive, lightly metafictional novel, the Mikkolas, are haunted by an intergenerational curse.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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The image is lightly executed: there is no background; the dress, arms and hands are minimally, even clumsily, drawn.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Benignantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/benignantly. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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