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Recent Examples of conspicuously
At the same time, 2022’s Scream introduced audiences to Billy Loomis’s secret love child — Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera), conspicuously missing here — so all bets are off.
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
But at his parade, most military hardware was conspicuously absent.
—Will Ripley, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026
Ever deliberately drive as far to the right as possible in a conspicuously fast car to avoid the long arm (and radar) of the law?
—Byron Hurd, The Drive, 26 Feb. 2026
Of the 101 senior officials, 36 were officially purged while 65 are missing or have been conspicuously absent from important meetings, the researchers said.
—Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 25 Feb. 2026
Besides, the German team, like many others in Europe, has become conspicuously multiethnic, with players of Turkish, Polish, Arab, or African descent.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
Most conspicuously, in 2023, Tyreek McDole, 25, and Ekep Nkwelle, 26, encountered each other when McDole became only the second male singer to win the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in New Jersey.
—Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
There are the typical role-playing video games, along with virtual tennis and dirt bike riding, but conspicuously absent are any winter sports.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Another item conspicuously missing from the sale listing is the electric guitar that Bob Dylan supposedly played at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, as depicted in the film A Complete Unknown.
—Julie Brener Davich, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
But at his parade, most military hardware was conspicuously absent.
—Will Ripley, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026
Ever deliberately drive as far to the right as possible in a conspicuously fast car to avoid the long arm (and radar) of the law?
—Byron Hurd, The Drive, 26 Feb. 2026
Of the 101 senior officials, 36 were officially purged while 65 are missing or have been conspicuously absent from important meetings, the researchers said.
—Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 25 Feb. 2026
Besides, the German team, like many others in Europe, has become conspicuously multiethnic, with players of Turkish, Polish, Arab, or African descent.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
Most conspicuously, in 2023, Tyreek McDole, 25, and Ekep Nkwelle, 26, encountered each other when McDole became only the second male singer to win the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in New Jersey.
—Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
There are the typical role-playing video games, along with virtual tennis and dirt bike riding, but conspicuously absent are any winter sports.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Another item conspicuously missing from the sale listing is the electric guitar that Bob Dylan supposedly played at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, as depicted in the film A Complete Unknown.
—Julie Brener Davich, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conspicuously
Adverb
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And here is where the Mondrich plotline neatly comes to a head!—
Christina Grace Tucker,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
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Mike Johnson had his little beige tie and his spectacles and his flag pin and his salt-and-pepper hair, neatly in place, and his pink Kewpie-doll cheeks, and he was just thrilled to be visited by the president.—
Alexandra Petri,
The Atlantic,
25 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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The two look strikingly similar — their physical structures appear nearly identical to the naked eye.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
3 Mar. 2026
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This is strikingly similar to what motivated heroism in Nazi Germany.—
Catherine A. Sanderson,
The Conversation,
3 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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The horror comes from the violation of a group meant to exist in harmony — featuring a cast of real dancers as the luridly fluid characters — being thrown violently out of sync, like a body spasming.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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But Masumura’s manner is raw and harsh, a cinematic parallel to pulp fiction, with intense emotional and physical violence, candid and heated eroticism, hectic performances, and luridly skewed visual compositions.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Rather than wait on her line tho, Sesno smartly came forward and plucked the ball out of the air before a shot could be taken.—
Clark Fahrenthold,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
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Pleasantly engineered and smartly shaped, the 2026 Uncharted has a plump price tag to boot.—
Marty Padgett,
The Drive,
26 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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But it’s also richly informed by intuition.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
21 Feb. 2026
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Commoners were considered poor, but had a richly varied diet at a time when the English elite had come to favor meat, wheat, and sugar, the precursor to today’s fast-food diet.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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The issue blew up spectacularly as the BBC failed to edit the words out of its BAFTA broadcast, which runs with a two-hour delay.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
27 Feb. 2026
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The spectacularly old among them sat in folding chairs beside the shaded stage, while the merely elderly stood just behind.—
Joshua Hunt,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Apartments cheaper than cars Some are flocking to places like Hegang, a cold and remote coal mining city in northeastern China famous for shockingly cheap housing prices.—
Albee Zhang,
Fortune,
2 Mar. 2026
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My shockingly simple secret to tousled waves and volume is Crown Affair’s Texturizing Air Dry Hair Mousse.—
Kaelin Dodge,
InStyle,
25 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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In one such cord-and-mirror series, he is nattily dressed in a plaid oxford shirt and a necktie.—
David Kamp,
New Yorker,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Conspicuously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conspicuously. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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