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Recent Examples of crazily
All this happened before, with the aid of a boombox, Singh and the little girls taught me to crazily dance Punjabi-style in their welcoming home occupied by three generations.
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Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026
Granted, by the time the Jet Skis are swinging crazily in the air, Nathan has only been onboard for a few hours.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
That seems like a crazily low number of songs.
—Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Guessing crazily at the future, the gambler is granted, briefly, the gift of now.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026
Granted, by the time the Jet Skis are swinging crazily in the air, Nathan has only been onboard for a few hours.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
That seems like a crazily low number of songs.
—Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Guessing crazily at the future, the gambler is granted, briefly, the gift of now.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crazily
Adverb
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This is not the countryside nor suburbia; this is New York City, the greatest city in the world, and one that desperately needs the aggressive pursuit of new homes.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
27 Feb. 2026
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Also, Netflix’s robust profit margins and balance sheet put it in a better position to invest in more content, which theaters need desperately.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Another surgeon recounted a case of a woman who started to bleed uncontrollably midway through surgery.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Mar. 2026
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Hydroplaning is when a vehicle starts uncontrollably sliding on wet roads.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
26 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Instead, the Slovenian James Harden is showing the exact same limitations and attitudes that saw Dallas frantically dump him.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
27 Feb. 2026
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People hurl wooden crates overboard, tumble off rafts, and frantically don life jackets—sometimes all at once.—
Kristen Geil,
Outside,
24 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Texas’s wildly divergent polls have found everything from a Talarico surge into first place to a solid Crockett lead.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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March is very much a winter month in the Upper Midwest, though the weather can vary wildly.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Their conversation bounced around frenetically, as their conversations tended to do.—
Aidan McLaughlin,
Vanity Fair,
13 Feb. 2026
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The early-career excitement Spielberg generated with Duel, The Sugarland Express, Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind came to a thudding halt with the frenetically busy, hopelessly bloated war comedy, 1941.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Tanner plunges into these ostentatiously autobiographical roles, heedlessly, hectically and without a psychiatric net.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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The old Helena would have mumbled something under her breath, hectically pressed the call button a few more times, and fled the situation as quickly as possible.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Substations caked in ice after blizzard Line crews, tree crews and damage assessment teams are spread throughout Cape Cod working feverishly and safely to turn the lights back on.—
Paul Burton,
CBS News,
25 Feb. 2026
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Reporters from many media outlets spent the afternoon feverishly examining the files.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
30 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The neighbors say that motorcycle enthusiasts regularly drive recklessly and noisily along RM 2222 west of Loop 360 and that officers have not been able to reign in the behavior under existing city rules.—
Austin Sanders,
Austin American Statesman,
26 Feb. 2026
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Police said Odom was driving more than 40 mph over the speed limit and recklessly changing lanes when he was pulled over.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Crazily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crazily. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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