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Recent Examples of coldly
Where is my rice-bartering Angelina Keeley, my coldly strategic Genevieve Mushaluk, my financial analyst Emily Flippen, or my real-life Buffalo Bills fan Kyle?
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
His cabinet, meanwhile, conspires to remove their own children from any ballot, before coldly decreeing that kids from the worst performing schools should be sent away with the 456.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
Advertisement Everyone needs to remember that on the issue of Taiwan, China is unlikely to act coldly and rationally if it is pushed into a corner.
—Kerry Brown, Time, 28 Nov. 2025
In our coldly transphobic present, Clean Slate feels like a warm cup of matcha.
—Michael Cuby, Them., 17 Nov. 2025
Another Paramount executive was shocked by how coldly the company dispensed with people who had worked there for decades.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
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
Joe Reid, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
His cabinet, meanwhile, conspires to remove their own children from any ballot, before coldly decreeing that kids from the worst performing schools should be sent away with the 456.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
Advertisement Everyone needs to remember that on the issue of Taiwan, China is unlikely to act coldly and rationally if it is pushed into a corner.
—Kerry Brown, Time, 28 Nov. 2025
In our coldly transphobic present, Clean Slate feels like a warm cup of matcha.
—Michael Cuby, Them., 17 Nov. 2025
Another Paramount executive was shocked by how coldly the company dispensed with people who had worked there for decades.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coldly
coolly
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Goetz fled the scene after speaking briefly and coolly to the train conductor.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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Also bent on finding the stone are sadistic rebel commander Captain Poison (David Harewood, oozing evil) and the coolly calculating Colonel (Arnold Vosloo), Danny’s one-time mentor as a soldier-for-hire.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Dec. 2025
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“Coldly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coldly. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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