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Adverb
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Filters for safely observing our star, revealing fine details in emission nebulae and countering urban light pollution are optionally available too.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 Sep. 2025 -
Further, the advanced version of the jet could also be optionally manned.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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However, that’s a role Brooks would prefer not to play, which means the NFL’s leading tackler (66 stops) gladly welcomes Dodson back to the field.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
16 Oct. 2025
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But in reality, the facility utilizes physical and psychological torture to break the kids down, turning them into hollow shells who will gladly submit themselves to the institute’s leader, Evelyn Wade (Toni Collette).—
Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The white paper recommends limiting play to one game a week in the fall and spring semesters, preferably on weekends.—
Luke Cyphers,
Sportico.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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Wait for a cloudy day, preferably before rain.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
15 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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But, in 1944, when the field of medical ethics was still developing, Ancel Keys, a physiologist at the University of Minnesota, recruited thirty-six male conscientious objectors to voluntarily starve themselves.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025
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In both of these investigations, the educators resigned from their jobs and voluntarily surrendered their teaching licenses.—
Danielle DuClos,
jsonline.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Desirably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desirably. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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