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Recent Examples of coldly
Another Paramount executive was shocked by how coldly the company dispensed with people who had worked there for decades.
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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
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coldly
coolly
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The 2000s Sacramento Kings star guard looks fit enough to curl off a screen and coolly drop in an 18-footer jumper in front of a frenzied home playoff crowd, but Bibby does his basketball work now with a whistle.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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Addison Barger had two hits and an RBI for the American League champion Blue Jays, who coolly rebounded from their heartbreaking, late-night defeat in Game 3 with stellar work at the plate and on the mound.—
Staff report,
Oc Register,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Coldly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coldly. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.
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