as in abruptly
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Recent Examples of brusquely
Norma Torres, whose son — Kenneth Mena Torres — was among those arrested, described a jarring moment when ICE agents brusquely entered their home to scan the face of each person living there.
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Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brusquely
Adverb
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However, in 2000, Burns abruptly left the show when his character went to college, passing the role down to his younger brother, Joe, played by Donovan Patton.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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The footage then cut abruptly to a new clip that featured Barrymore and Colbert holding their respective mugs and talking about her recent 50th birthday.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Your films deal bluntly with other volatile social issues.—
Zak Cheney-Rice,
Vulture,
28 Aug. 2025
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Henry Throp, research manager at FAIRR and lead author of the new briefing, described the challenge bluntly in an interview.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Brusquely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brusquely. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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