completely

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Recent Examples of completely This is a major milestone for us, but honestly, that happened completely naturally and organically. — Annika Pham, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026 The screen is also a pleasure to read, both with the backlight and completely unlit under natural light, with text looking sharp and even grayscale renderings of color art showing plenty of detail. — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026 Shoppers are now sharing screenshots of descriptions that range from funny to completely inaccurate. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026 The handwashing station was completely blocked with dirty dishes stored inside the sink. — Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026 This may mean experiencing a familiar landscape from a completely different angle, seeing it through the eyes of a local, or engaging with it through the senses. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026 Unfortunately, there’s no proven way to completely eliminate hallucinations from AI systems for now. — Klaudia Zaika, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 So in 1981 and ’82, the new Reagan administration completely rewrote the antitrust guidelines, the federal guidelines that instruct federal judges and prosecutors, state attorneys generals, everybody. — John E. McDonough, STAT, 16 Oct. 2026 The 71-year-old is completely autonomous now in movement and breathing, the Vatican added. — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 16 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
  • The general trivia and straight clues are also tough, and there’s a good amount of novelty, including 11 debut entries, a few oddballs among them, and one utterly brutal misdirect that significantly spiced up my solving experience.
    — Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • And, of course, a finish that left me utterly speechless on multiple different levels.
    — Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 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 23 Oct. 2026.

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