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Recent Examples of calculatedly
With its calculatedly severe form, the film both distills and extends melodrama to avant-garde extremes.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculatedly
Adverb
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But Nelson replied that while many provisions of the voting rights law did have time limits, Congress deliberately refused to put a time limit on this provision.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
15 Oct. 2025
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Although the pace of fabric purchasing for collections has slowed because of fluctuations in the global economy, Kesim said that brands are doing this to manage their processes more deliberately.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
13 Oct. 2025
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The Girls Opportunity Alliance fund is intentionally designed to provide a range of support.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
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The Mariners intentionally walked Carpenter to load the bases with two outs in the 11th and escaped one of the game’s biggest situations when Gleyber Torres flied out to right field.—
The Athletic MLB Staff,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Often sustainability no longer implies that slave labor wasn’t deployed, or that there hasn’t been a purposeful reduction in the tuna population, but instead that there has been some vague dialogue entered into about not willfully raping the planet.—
Louis J. Esterhazy,
Footwear News,
11 Oct. 2025
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And suggesting that Dustin Johnson and Patrick Reed should be on a Ryder Cup team in 2025 is both willfully obtuse and indicative of a person looking back, not forward.—
Hugh Kellenberger,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Is the packaging consciously designed or needlessly wasteful?—
Lily Wohlner,
Allure,
10 Oct. 2025
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In January, Kidman told W Magazine that she's consciously saved all of her red carpet looks for her daughters to get their hands on.—
Janelle Ash,
FOXNews.com,
8 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Continue reading … MACY PETTY – High-ranking Democrats admit to knowingly abandoning women.—
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FOXNews.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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Last month, the NCAA revealed enforcement actions against 16 former D-I men’s basketball players who are accused of betting on or against their own teams, knowingly manipulating scoring or game outcomes, providing information to facilitate others’ bets and related misdeeds.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
9 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Prouse's priority was to avoid any child feeling labeled or purposely assigned to a table that wasn't as academically strong.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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Taken together, Showing Up and Night Moves thematically foreshadow Reichardt’s critique of James in The Mastermind by purposely pushing real-world problems to the margins.—
Robert Daniels,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Calculatedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculatedly. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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