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Recent Examples of crazily
Thanks to a crazily unlikely accident, the researchers had witnessed a sperm-whale birth and had managed to videotape the entire event.
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Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2026
And still, crazily enough, there are occasional firsts.
—Dan Woike, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
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.
—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
Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2026
And still, crazily enough, there are occasional firsts.
—Dan Woike, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crazily
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Imagine the ribs are a bottle and the mucus is the ketchup desperately clinging to its sides, Welsh says.—
Courtney Crowder,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026
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When Holloway pulled the puck back to his forehand to finish into the empty net, he was robbed by Morrissey, who had slid desperately to his left like a street hockey goalie to make a shocking stick save.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Hydroplaning occurs when a vehicle begins to slide uncontrollably on wet roads.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Apr. 2026
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Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Then seconds later the controller frantically called for the fire truck to stop.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 Apr. 2026
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In the hours after Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was shot to death inside the bedroom of his mountaintop home, an inner circle of people suspected of being involved in the assassination plot in South Florida and in Port-au-Prince were frantically trying to steer events in their favor.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
6 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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And while the legal penalties for the two are wildly different, the results behind the wheel are often just as dangerous.—
Doug Turnbull,
AJC.com,
5 Apr. 2026
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Nashville broke a three-way traffic jam on Saturday via a 6-3 victory over the San Jose Sharks and the Kings prevailed in a wildly unpredictable, and at times unprofessional, match against Toronto, 7-6 in overtime.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
5 Apr. 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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When Grace first awakens on his ship, the film cuts hectically around, above, and below him, as if to approximate his mental and physical disorientation.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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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
Adverb
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At one point near the play’s tragic climax, Willy is feverishly planting seeds in the backyard, but Elliott gives no credibility to any of his character’s actions.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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Bush and Mueller worked closely as US authorities feverishly sought to stop the next possible terrorist attack.—
Josh Campbell,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Multiple 911 calls from drivers on Interstate 40 led to the arrest of an Amazon trucker accused of driving recklessly while intoxicated, according to investigators in eastern North Carolina.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Apr. 2026
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According to the suit, Nike’s actions show that the brand intentionally, willfully, recklessly and/or negligently failed to take reasonable and adequate measures to protect consumer data.—
Kate Nishimura,
Footwear News,
7 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Crazily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crazily. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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