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Recent Examples of disastrously
Two, how is a glass jar of fig jam supposed to plummet from its shelf without cracking disastrously before retrieval?
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Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025
Over the years, Greg has gotten into fights with his best friend Rowley and troublemaking brother Rodrick, he’s gone to summer camp and saved his school, even tried his hand (disastrously) at sports.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Former President Joe Biden technically reduced the deficit, but only after beginning his presidency with a $3 trillion shortfall in 2021 to fund his disastrously inflationary American Rescue Plan.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2025
The country’s leaders, ostensibly engineers, got their calculations disastrously wrong and built too much of everything, including high-speed rail.
—Andy Browne, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Here are five examples of proposals that went disastrously wrong.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
This disastrously cramped conception of who gets to have a day in court would be the main target of my outrage if the court’s opinion on the use of ethnicity, language and workplace as factors in immigration enforcement weren’t even more upsetting.
—Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
This prediction almost proved disastrously far from the truth.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Hailing from a time before the relentless onslaught of social media, Trumpian politics, COVID, and artificial intelligence, the Magnetic Zeros’ prelapsarian sincerity now appears disastrously blithe.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025
Over the years, Greg has gotten into fights with his best friend Rowley and troublemaking brother Rodrick, he’s gone to summer camp and saved his school, even tried his hand (disastrously) at sports.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Former President Joe Biden technically reduced the deficit, but only after beginning his presidency with a $3 trillion shortfall in 2021 to fund his disastrously inflationary American Rescue Plan.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2025
The country’s leaders, ostensibly engineers, got their calculations disastrously wrong and built too much of everything, including high-speed rail.
—Andy Browne, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Here are five examples of proposals that went disastrously wrong.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
This disastrously cramped conception of who gets to have a day in court would be the main target of my outrage if the court’s opinion on the use of ethnicity, language and workplace as factors in immigration enforcement weren’t even more upsetting.
—Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
This prediction almost proved disastrously far from the truth.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Hailing from a time before the relentless onslaught of social media, Trumpian politics, COVID, and artificial intelligence, the Magnetic Zeros’ prelapsarian sincerity now appears disastrously blithe.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disastrously
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What has become horribly and painfully obvious post-strike is that as the challenges facing our business have risen, the press and the chatter has gotten way more negative.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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With its frozen setting, enigmatic characters, and haunting tone, Let The Right One In is, at its core, a twisted and terribly sad love story — as all the best vampire movies are.—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
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Something went terribly wrong in the flavor-infusion process.—
Jolene Thym,
Mercury News,
27 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The back end of the bullpen is stout, yet the lineup is dreadfully short.—
Stephen J. Nesbitt,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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After a three-game slide, getting back in the win column feels awfully good.—
Shane Connuck,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Nov. 2025
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The carousel has gotten awfully crowded.—
Blake Toppmeyer,
USA TODAY,
30 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The attrition rate was abysmally high.—
Snigdha Poonam,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
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Confidence in the media is abysmally low, a finding confirmed regularly by many pollsters asking many different questions.—
Karlyn Bowman,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Ohtani didn’t fare so poorly himself, hitting a two-run home run in the seventh inning off Braydon Fisher.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Unfortunately, a major drug trial for a new indication went poorly.—
Paulina Likos,
CNBC,
24 Oct. 2025
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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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Last seen horrifically disfigured and injured on Earth-X, Peacemaker's alternate-universe brother survived despite Harcourt's attempt to kill him.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Oct. 2025
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When people are perhaps more vulnerable than any other moment and that vulnerability is, horrifically, exploited.—
Diana Arterian,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Disastrously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disastrously. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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