completely

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Recent Examples of completely Cregger uses first-person-shooter point-of-view shots, with the long barrel of a rifle or automatic weapon lining up our sights; one running gag sees Bryan, completely hopeless with guns, having to shoot the locks off of gates. — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026 At the center of it all is the completely fictional Corinne, who Huppert plays to the hilt. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2026 That makes the iPhone 18 Pro completely free, and gets you a new iPhone Pro Max for less than $100. — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026 Falling over the shoulders of Princess Charlene, the neckline was completely embellished with beadwork in the same shade of black for a monochrome finish. — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026 Transfer to the oven and cook until the chicken is completely tender and shows no resistance when pierced with a sharp knife, about 1 1/2 hours. — ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026 Still, seeing thousands of people react to a childhood that once felt completely ordinary has prompted Vaughan to reflect on what those 16 months ultimately gave her. — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026 When cold water was used, even extensive shaking did not completely dissolve the powder at the bottom of the container. — Sunny Linnebur, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026 That’s no easy task, given that your recipe needs to create the binomial and regular graphs simultaneously, even though they usually get built using completely different random processes. — Paulina Rowińska, Quanta Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for completely
Adverb
  • If there’s plenty to despair about in Krux, Vahl also shows how all is not totally lost.
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026
  • In 1986, that was totally out of the realm of our understanding.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
Adverb
  • Ukraine has been systematically bombing some of those refineries, severely curtailing the global supply of diesel fuel.
    — Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Apple, Garmin and Samsung all systematically overestimated caloric expenditure.
    — Jason Kostrna, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2026
Adverb
  • The federal tax credit is also fully stackable on top of other state credits, which have already gotten pretty aggressive.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Borrowers must have been assessed an ATM access fee or other charge fee that was not fully reimbursed by their bank.
    — Dan Avery, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026
Adverb
  • And thoroughly mixed across space before accreting into meteorites.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Kelce said lovingly before shouting out how quickly and thoroughly Swift picked up all there is to know about his sport.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2026
Adverb
  • The machine does not need to have its own consciousness and desires to be utterly deadly.
    — Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The show’s composer, Stephen Schwartz, and director, Howard Sponseller, seemed utterly taken with this tall, skinny girl, whose name was Gilda Radner.
    — Victor Garber, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026
Adverb
  • Some of the guests on board had upcoming bookings for the top-of-the-line (and priced like it) ship, though many remained quite fond of our Le Lyrial.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
  • So anyway, my artistic trajectory was going along quite nicely in Joy Division.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
Adverb
  • The flat seat design—with minimal padding—serves as a constant reminder of the KB998 Rimini’s racing heritage, and may not feel great for longer rides, but provides a perfectly stable platform to slide across on track.
    — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The outerwear pick has a slightly oversized fit that’ll pair perfectly with chunky sweaters, plus it’s made from a gorgeous faux-suede material.
    — Kyra Surgent, InStyle, 20 Sep. 2026
Adverb
  • That’s an ethos wholly rejected by Trump, of course, but one that suits China, at least as rhetoric.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Too often, environmental advocates insist on the elimination of poaching, logging, and other harmful activities while remaining wholly unfamiliar with the factors at play that lead to predation, neglect, and abuse of nature.
    — Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026

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“Completely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/completely. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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