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Recent Examples of crazily
That seems like a crazily low number of songs.
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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
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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Sitting at 1-2-1 on the season, the Dallas Cowboys head into their Week 5 game against the New York Jets desperately needing a victory to keep pace in the NFC East.—
Reice Shipley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Oct. 2025
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The result has been a less vibrant, less productive network of private enterprises unable to provide the economic growth that Cuba so desperately needs.—
Joseph J. Gonzalez,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle starts sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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Hydroplaning is when a vehicle starts uncontrollably sliding on wet roads.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Indonesian rescue teams are frantically searching for scores of young students buried for two days under rubble in Sidoarjo, East Java, after their Islamic boarding school collapsed on them during afternoon prayers.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, her parents frantically hide the rift from their audience.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Expect the Wizards to continue building that draft pick war chest during the season, likely in deals that send out contributors such as McCollum, Middleton, Kispert and the wildly underrated Justin Champagnie.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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The exposure was going to change wildly in the course of the eclipse, and totality would last only a few minutes.—
Sarah Botstein,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Countless moths beat frenetically around the trap’s white, diaphanous panels, which are swaying with ghostly ripples in a gentle breeze.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Oct. 2025
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Singer Brendan Yates’ intensity — at one point leaping with abandon, at another frenetically thrusting — is what makes Turnstile cook.—
Daniel Kohn,
Rolling Stone,
16 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Other actors stacked up projects like poker chips, supplementing TV work with movies, theatre gigs, or branding deals, feverishly hedging against the risks of a shrinking industry.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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That’s the way Fleur looks at Julian in real life too — adoring and feverishly in love, so when Fleur announces that the pair are getting married over dinner with friends, everyone responds with joy and delight.—
Jourdain Searles,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Advertisement Even in regions without dams, farmers pumped recklessly from unmonitored wells.—
Nik Kowsar,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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Edelman’s job was to contain any returner who might break outside instead of pursuing the kickoff as fast and recklessly as possible downfield.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
20 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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This is a story about two young people who find each other, fall madly in love, and are then torn apart by unimaginable disaster — one rendered by the obsessive director in minute, breathless, excruciating detail.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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William falls immediately, madly in love with Agnes.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Crazily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crazily. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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