completely

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Recent Examples of completely By the 2120s, the entire labyrinth will be completely backfilled, sealed, and handed over to the state. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026 Simone…commanded a room, captivating audiences with unexpected combinations of genres and her ability to surrender herself completely to the music. — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026 That means removing plants, mud and debris from boats, trailers and equipment; draining water from compartments; and allowing equipment to dry completely. — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026 In the streaming age, MLS completely removed its regional restrictions, making all games available everywhere. — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 23 Oct. 2026 The system is robustly audited, completely disconnected from the Internet, and is the largest digital voting system deployed on the planet. — Solly Boussidan, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026 Adam has a vulnerability and warmth that immediately drew me to him, but there’s also something unpredictable underneath – a quiet strength that feels completely right for Hákon. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026 The transaction becomes much harder to spot when the person placing the order is using someone else’s payment information and the dumpster itself is completely real. — Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026 Those spaces didn’t exist; reggaeton was very marginal, completely removed from society. — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for completely
Adverb
  • Caleb Bowlin / Getty Images A good night in New York totally spoiled?
    — CBS News, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • For years, artist Todd Gray kept the two strands of his creative life totally separate from each other.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • Police arrested him again in April 2023 and started combing through the forest more systematically and exhuming mass graves.
    — Jefferson Kahinju Reuters, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The Embodied Neurocomputation Framework treats this as an engineering problem, systematically optimizing information entering the neural network.
    — Mike McRae October 19, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • The fully electric design combines a 151 MWh energy storage system with containerized batteries and port charging infrastructure.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Yet, Wealth Briefing Asia notes that regulatory and reporting challenges often stop family offices from fully embracing crypto assets.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • In a series thoroughly well cast (by Jessica Kelly and Lisa Parasyn), Lee and Brennan, especially, stand out as originals, their performances drawn from life, or some private corner of their imagination.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Blazy’s collection this season references an unstructured 1920s silhouette, while this style’s homage to the house’s boucle tweed, embellished with paillettes, creates a thoroughly modern evening look.
    — Laurie Brookins, HollywoodReporter, 18 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • Comparing the administration's fight to protect women and women's spaces from males to rape, is utterly disgusting and actually devalues those atrocities and crimes against actual women.
    — Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Humanity has become an Earth-System force in the most utterly literal way—by moving a lot of earth.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • But now, as everything online morphs into algorithmic social media, the case for concern has crystallized into something quite specific.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Few sports have embraced the pursuit of new audiences quite like F1, the motorsport league acquired by Liberty Media nearly a decade ago.
    — Sam Jacobs, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • Rising fuel costs, discontent with the state of schools, declining public services and a housing crisis have created perfectly stormy weather for an autumn of protests in Europe.
    — Teresa Medrano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
  • This process, which generates perfectly crystalline silicon ingots to be sliced like fragile metallic salamis into thin wafers, is entrusted largely to one firm in Taiwan and two in Japan.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • Netflix, Disney+, Tubi and others are aggressively cutting deals for top creators, in some cases securing wholly original programming or day-and-date releases with YouTube, offering millions of dollars in the process.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Some experts believe this is a good start, but many see it as wholly inadequate.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

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

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