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Recent Examples of casually
After squeezing the game’s final out, first baseman Leyton MacPherson casually flipped the ball in the air, joined her teammate in a sprint toward Spangler, and gloves began flying.
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Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2026
Soon there’s a birthday party, Valentine’s Day, a brit bat (aka a baby-naming ceremony), Purim (a celebration of Jewish deliverance casually referred to as Jewish Halloween), and a game night at a beer garden.
—Hugh Hart, IndieWire, 23 May 2026
The 17-year-old wore her long light brown hair straight tossed casually to one side in a subtle side part.
—Meg Walters, InStyle, 23 May 2026
The aesthetic pulls from track jackets, vintage soccer kits, and club jerseys styled casually.
—Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
Then the climax subsides for a lovely coda of strings, accompanied by a denouement in which the now casually clad, contemporary-looking singer smashes up her play set in the apartment where she’s presumably been brooding over all this stuff.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 22 May 2026
Wear it casually with jeans and sneakers on the weekend, or dress it up for work with trousers and sleek loafers.
—Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
My doctors didn’t choose it casually.
—Payton Herres, STAT, 19 May 2026
What the Research Found About Stigma and Language The team behind the change did not arrive at PMOS casually.
—Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 19 May 2026
Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2026
Soon there’s a birthday party, Valentine’s Day, a brit bat (aka a baby-naming ceremony), Purim (a celebration of Jewish deliverance casually referred to as Jewish Halloween), and a game night at a beer garden.
—Hugh Hart, IndieWire, 23 May 2026
The 17-year-old wore her long light brown hair straight tossed casually to one side in a subtle side part.
—Meg Walters, InStyle, 23 May 2026
The aesthetic pulls from track jackets, vintage soccer kits, and club jerseys styled casually.
—Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
Then the climax subsides for a lovely coda of strings, accompanied by a denouement in which the now casually clad, contemporary-looking singer smashes up her play set in the apartment where she’s presumably been brooding over all this stuff.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 22 May 2026
Wear it casually with jeans and sneakers on the weekend, or dress it up for work with trousers and sleek loafers.
—Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
My doctors didn’t choose it casually.
—Payton Herres, STAT, 19 May 2026
What the Research Found About Stigma and Language The team behind the change did not arrive at PMOS casually.
—Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 19 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for casually
Adverb
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Some are dumped carelessly back into local waters.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
19 May 2026
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Here Athane and Nguyen rather carelessly traffic in AIDS allegory, which clangs badly against the movie’s otherwise silly, lighthearted demeanor.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
Adverb
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When the 16 coaches were informally polled about doubling the size of the playoff field during one of their sessions at the Big 12 spring meetings, all of them raised their hands.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 May 2026
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The project started informally almost a decade ago between Arthur and Clarke, long before the idea of making a record.—
David Chiu,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
Adverb
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America is offhandedly disregarding science.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
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Sometimes, Academy Award-winning actress Sandra Bullock will offhandedly give you career advice.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
28 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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The people whose few belongings were being arbitrarily picked up and thrown by a crane into the trash were not harassing staff.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2026
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According to Mavares, investigators then arbitrarily selected which officers would remain detained.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
11 May 2026
Adverb
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Once outside, the suspect fired indiscriminately, hitting other houses and possibly a vehicle in the immediate area, Sutter said.—
Nathaniel Percy,
Oc Register,
20 May 2026
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Innate defenses include everything from physical barriers—skin, mucous, gastric acid—to immune cells that can indiscriminately gobble invaders, as well as chemical signals that can swiftly ignite generic inflammation.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
15 May 2026
Adverb
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No landlord would allow an occupant to change his property without approval, let alone whimsically destroy a third of it.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Apr. 2026
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Something this rare — this pink, this whimsically named — had been thriving just steps away from a local community, entirely unrecognized until the survey team went out to look.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Huxley’s critique is clear; America mistakes body for spirit, promiscuously confusing the physical with the metaphysical.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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Political factions are steered by big personalities, and politicians jump promiscuously between parties.—
BEN BLAND,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Feb. 2024
Adverb
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Permits that are granted and withdrawn capriciously, tax credits that come and go, technologies that fall in or out of favor in successive administrations, and endless legal battles all amount to dangerous barriers to investment.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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That standard would uphold the NCAA’s interpretation of the waiver rule so long as the NCAA didn’t act arbitrarily or capriciously, either of which is difficult to show.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
27 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Casually.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/casually. Accessed 30 May. 2026.
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