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Adverb
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The May 1 session primarily focused on how the defense and prosecutors will efficiently sift through as many as 150 potential jurors starting May 5.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
2 May 2025 -
Then there are starts when the pitcher labors to throw strikes and dispatch the opposition’s offense efficiently.—
Bernie Pleskoff,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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Olyphant, despite somewhat limited screen time, ably drops hints about Vincent’s elastic professional ethics before his more unequivocal role in the big finale.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Apr. 2025
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The show was ably organized by Evans, who whittled the initial selection from Bachardy’s prodigious archive, with Dennis Carr, Huntington chief curator of American art, and Karla Nielsen, the library’s senior curator of literary collections.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Dexterously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dexterously. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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