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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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Bluesky, part of the decentralized internet, is slower paced and caters to niche interests, rewarding internecine fights over minutiae, whereas X is deliberately chaotic, encouraging the gathering of follower-armies and ideological insult-comedy for an audience that may be largely made up of bots.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
10 Sep. 2025
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People can deliberately cultivate more conscientiousness, boost their sociability or soften their neurotic edges.—
Dave Winsborough,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Giants pitcher Justin Verlander, who had just allowed four straight batters to hit the ball at least 97 MPH, intentionally walked Shohei Ohtani.—
Dan Freedman,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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With a base open, Melvin elected to intentionally walk one MVP in Shohei Ohtani to get to another MVP in Betts.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
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Time and time again, college students willfully engage in religious discussions if the intentions of all parties are authentic – often occurring between friends and faculty who adopt critical and inclusive pedagogical approaches in the classroom.—
Matthew Mayhew,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The case, which was originally set to go to trial in December, could have exposed Anthropic to damages of up to $1 trillion if the court found that the company willfully violated copyright law.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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This means regularly assessing your thinking skills, consciously choosing when to engage versus delegate mental tasks, and maintaining practices that keep your mind sharp.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Dating consciously and intentionally, with a checklist of desirable qualities and a determination not to hurt anyone’s feelings—what a great way to keep him out of your business.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Hayes previously pleaded guilty to knowingly and willfully transmitting in interstate commerce a communication containing a threat to injure the person of another, according to prosecutors.—
Julia Marnin,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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The only thing that truly matters, and which simply must be established by the time the investigation is done, is whether Ballmer or any Clippers officials knowingly played a part in these deals that filled Leonard’s pockets.—
Sam Amick,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The new 12-night journey will launch in the summer of 2027 aboard the company's ice-breaking Le Commandant Charcot ship and is purposely designed to meet demand for a shorter cruise that still celebrates polar exploration, Ponant shared with Travel + Leisure.—
Katie Nadworny,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
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Mile Elam, who had made the trip to West Tennessee from Bella Vista, Arkansas, purposely sat in a back row of the news conference as not to draw attention to himself.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
The Tennessean,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Calculatedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculatedly. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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