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Recent Examples of coldly
Picasso received him coldly, refused his offer of fuel, and showed him the door.
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Christopher C. Gorham
september 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 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
The shame falls on every single person that coldly turned a blind eye to their abuse.
—Hannah Parry
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
But this is real life, not fiction, and Loktev isn’t coldly observing her subjects from on high or yanking them along on unseen strings.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
Christopher C. Gorham
september 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 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
The shame falls on every single person that coldly turned a blind eye to their abuse.
—Hannah Parry
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
But this is real life, not fiction, and Loktev isn’t coldly observing her subjects from on high or yanking them along on unseen strings.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coldly
coolly
Adverb
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The director’s approach is coolly distant and underpowered; even scenes of bloody battle in the ring feel merely informational.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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After Rodrigo De Paul was clipped inside the 18-yard box for a penalty, Suarez stepped up to coolly convert from the spot with a low effort to the left.—
Franco Panizo,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Coldly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coldly. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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