coldly

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Recent Examples of coldly Dodge attempted to keep their correspondence up, but Stein’s replies grew more and more infrequent, and further invitations to the Villa Curonia were coldly refused. Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025 The film opens with a celebratory raid on an ICE facility to free detainees, and shows government agents coldly executing unarmed suspects and sending an undercover agent into a peaceful protest to throw a Molotov cocktail to justify increased force. James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025 The Mets could also coldly move on from Megill or Garrett, given their elbow injuries. Tim Britton, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 A smoke screen to obscure an unprecedented consolidation of power and unitarian intimidation and coldly antithetical to any experiment in a constitutional republic governance. Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025 A smoke screen to obscure an unprecedented consolidation of power and unitary intimidation and coldly antithetical to any experiment in a constitutional republic governance. Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025 Quantum Technologies Quantum is another ground-breaking field, this one based on those classic ideas of quantum mechanics that seem, to many of us, so quaint and romantic in their theory, but coldly mechanical when applied to computer science. John Werner, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025 From up in the rafters, a single spotlight coldly blazed. James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025 Her parents are coldly up-front in their homophobia, but this is the late 1980s. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coldly
coolly
Adverb
  • Then the pilot coolly opened the door and hopped out of the plane unharmed.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The veteran of 71 postseason games slid to his left to field it, coolly executing a fundamental throw home to nab Bauers and keep the game tied, 1-1.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025

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