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Adverb
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Not terribly hard, as he’s shown before.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
10 May 2026 -
Not so coincidentally, Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930, was from Kansas, so Isaacman’s answer to a senator from that state isn’t terribly unexpected.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
8 May 2026
Adverb
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This district has been horribly gerrymandered because there is no law in place to prevent it.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2026
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Journalists will suffer horribly – and screenwriters.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
1 May 2026
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More than anything, this documentary is dreadfully dull.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
11 Mar. 2026
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That’s another company with a stock that acts dreadfully.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
25 Jan. 2026
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The Mercedes might have looked awfully dominant in Australia, China, and Japan, but as of now, the season looks like a four-way fight.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
4 May 2026
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All four Southern California teams came awfully close to advancing to the second round of the NCAA Beach Volleyball Championships.—
Daily News,
Daily News,
1 May 2026
Adverb
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In practice, this meant that the state set abysmally low standards for what students should learn to advance and graduate.—
Rachel Canter,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
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Reports on abysmally low rates of recycling for milk cartons and polystyrene had been widely shared even before that.—
Susanne Rust
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Winter's disastrously low snowfall could further complicate an already-audacious plan to refill the dying Great Salt Lake in time for the 2034 Winter Olympics in Utah.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
12 Apr. 2026
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Within the first few pages, our forty-five-year-old narrator, a man addicted to his phone a normal amount (which is to say, disastrously), drops his phone just after FaceTiming his ten-year-old daughter.—
Hannah Gold,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Pratt framed both Bass and Raman as representatives of a failing City Hall leadership, arguing Los Angeles had become increasingly unsafe, unaffordable and poorly managed under current leadership.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
7 May 2026
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Walgreens was performing poorly financially and then-CEO Tim Wentworth decided the giant pharmacy chain needed to close many hundreds — maybe more than 1,000 — of its money-losing stores around the country.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
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This way, the white people are exposed treating the Indigenous people horrendously — putting clothes on them, taking pictures without permission and treating them without respect.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
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Taking just the bare stats into consideration, Rooney's managerial career has been defined by a horrendously low win rate, but that is in addition to a spate of embarrassing off-field antics.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Deplorably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deplorably. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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