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to a great degree
a blisteringly harsh review of the new musical
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Recent Examples of blisteringly
Brown has started his campaign with two blisteringly negative ads.
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Liz Goodwin The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2026
Both players were young, blisteringly quick and supremely talented and scored goals at a rate that exceeded what both Messi and Ronaldo had been capable of at similar ages.
—Tom Williams, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026
Rue’s adventures as a drug mule are both horrifying and blisteringly funny, walking a tightrope that Levinson has always navigated expertly.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2026
Multiple cities in southern Nevada, meanwhile, may climb to 107 by later this week — blisteringly hot conditions for this early in the year.
—Denise Chow, NBC news, 16 Mar. 2026
But Kramer was outside the government, with friends dying, blisteringly aware of the ways in which the official instinct toward bureaucracy was dragging out a scientific process that needed to be moving at, to quote a more modern enterprise, warp speed.
—Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026
Back then, the idea of holding winter sports in a country known more for blisteringly hot deserts than snowy peaks seemed absurd.
—Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Despite challenges like blisteringly cold temperatures and ceaseless wind gusts, don’t be deterred—something fluffy effortlessly glamorizes winter dressing (and keeps us from freezing solid).
—Bianca Kratky, Glamour, 24 Nov. 2025
Unimore still seized the Fastest Lap Award, confirming that its algorithms were blisteringly quick.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 21 Nov. 2025
Liz Goodwin The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2026
Both players were young, blisteringly quick and supremely talented and scored goals at a rate that exceeded what both Messi and Ronaldo had been capable of at similar ages.
—Tom Williams, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026
Rue’s adventures as a drug mule are both horrifying and blisteringly funny, walking a tightrope that Levinson has always navigated expertly.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2026
Multiple cities in southern Nevada, meanwhile, may climb to 107 by later this week — blisteringly hot conditions for this early in the year.
—Denise Chow, NBC news, 16 Mar. 2026
But Kramer was outside the government, with friends dying, blisteringly aware of the ways in which the official instinct toward bureaucracy was dragging out a scientific process that needed to be moving at, to quote a more modern enterprise, warp speed.
—Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026
Back then, the idea of holding winter sports in a country known more for blisteringly hot deserts than snowy peaks seemed absurd.
—Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Despite challenges like blisteringly cold temperatures and ceaseless wind gusts, don’t be deterred—something fluffy effortlessly glamorizes winter dressing (and keeps us from freezing solid).
—Bianca Kratky, Glamour, 24 Nov. 2025
Unimore still seized the Fastest Lap Award, confirming that its algorithms were blisteringly quick.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 21 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blisteringly
Adverb
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Canfield, as proven by her work in Stereophonic, is extremely able at playing a character with a pristine, almost porcelain surface and roiling depths.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
5 June 2026
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This has been extremely traumatic for both of us, especially Ashley.—
Emily St. Martin,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2026
Adverb
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Leda opened her mouth and left it open, an incredibly affecting gesture.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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This is a Ritz-Carlton—incredibly refined, but always approachable.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
Adverb
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Los Angeles County voters will cast ballots Tuesday in two very different races for county supervisor.—
Connor Sheets,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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At least one watchdog group warned the legislation could poke more holes into the property tax base for very large developers across the state, not just the Bears.—
Jeremy Gorner,
Chicago Tribune,
30 May 2026
Adverb
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While there are plenty of moments of necessary humor in the story, with Marquis flexing her knack for comic timing, other moments are terribly uncomfortable to grasp.—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
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The finish is dry and not terribly long.—
David Thomas Tao,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
Adverb
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Judge Cooper also stated that the highly prestigious Board of the Center was not authorized to add on the name ‘TRUMP’ despite the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars of my time and money will be necessary for its successful reincarnation.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
30 May 2026
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Those kinds of partnerships, where Delta steers customers to a brand and gets a cut of the business, explain why the airline chose Amazon over Starlink as the provider for its in-flight services, to Elon Musk’s highly vocal irritation.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
30 May 2026
Adverb
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His sense of crafting anecdotes into top-tier material and knowing how to use his sweet-molasses pacing to calmly detonate a joke is damn near peerless.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2026
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That curve looks pretty damn good.—
Eric Siegel,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
Adverb
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Obviously, there's more to it than that, coaching and other factors need to be in place too, but does anyone believe Fernando Mendoza winds up in Bloomington if not for NIL?—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
4 June 2026
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There are some more interesting initiatives, too.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 June 2026
Adverb
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But Cleveland State was, in fact, a damned good basketball team, as were most of the double-digit seed winners in NCAA Tournament history.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
18 Mar. 2026
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And damned if Love isn’t willing to talk, sometimes candidly and other times in maddeningly vague terms, about all the hell she’s gone through to get to right now.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Blisteringly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blisteringly. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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