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Recent Examples of disastrously
However, enforcement – both statewide and nationally – is disastrously underresourced.
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David Michaels,
Fortune,
21 June 2026
However, enforcement – both statewide and nationally – is disastrously underresourced.
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David Michaels,
The Conversation,
18 June 2026
His high point will be long forgotten, disastrously undone by his successor to plunge the world into recession, if not depression.
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Chicago Tribune,
14 June 2026
Their lives shift gears when a mysterious figure from Judith’s past resurfaces and a mission goes disastrously wrong.
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Lily Brown,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
For a group of girls who wanted nothing more than to become doting wives and smiling mothers, the year could not have gone more disastrously.
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Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
27 May 2026
The growth of extremes, if unchecked, could lead to the kind of politics that disastrously poisoned the 1930s.
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Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
Baran and others at RAND were working on national security issues, including what to do about its disastrously fragile communications system.
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Laura Isensee,
Scientific American,
18 May 2026
The 42-year-old Dos Santos' first MMA bout since 2024 ended disastrously when Despaigne caught him with a three-punch combo that left Dos Santos senseless on the canvas.
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ABC News,
16 May 2026
David Michaels,
Fortune,
21 June 2026
However, enforcement – both statewide and nationally – is disastrously underresourced.
—
David Michaels,
The Conversation,
18 June 2026
His high point will be long forgotten, disastrously undone by his successor to plunge the world into recession, if not depression.
—
Chicago Tribune,
14 June 2026
Their lives shift gears when a mysterious figure from Judith’s past resurfaces and a mission goes disastrously wrong.
—
Lily Brown,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
For a group of girls who wanted nothing more than to become doting wives and smiling mothers, the year could not have gone more disastrously.
—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
27 May 2026
The growth of extremes, if unchecked, could lead to the kind of politics that disastrously poisoned the 1930s.
—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
Baran and others at RAND were working on national security issues, including what to do about its disastrously fragile communications system.
—
Laura Isensee,
Scientific American,
18 May 2026
The 42-year-old Dos Santos' first MMA bout since 2024 ended disastrously when Despaigne caught him with a three-punch combo that left Dos Santos senseless on the canvas.
—
ABC News,
16 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disastrously
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The film follows a Bigfoot hoax that goes horribly wrong in the middle of an actual Sasquatch hot spot, leading to a chaotic struggle between the hoaxers, investigators, and a supernatural force that defies explanation.
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Directed by Jean Rollin, the film centers on a first date that goes horribly wrong after the couple get lost in a sprawling cemetery.
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Wonderfully and terribly, everything does happen for Maddie after her adoring bear of a husband, Jake (Eric Rahill), makes a cooking video of her that goes massively viral.
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Perhaps the biggest problem with this movie is that Supergirl (Helen Slater) seems terribly leisurely about her fateful mission.
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Part slasher parody, part meta commentary on the structure of horror movies, and fully riotous, Behind the Mask is a dreadfully under-appreciated contribution to the subgenre that would have made for a terrific franchise.
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Especially early in its career, Hum was dreadfully misclassified as just another soft-to-loud/Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana wannabe, and remained criminally under-appreciated for its heavy/stoner-friendly Midwestern shoegaze vibes long after its breakup.
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The catastrophies that our heroine averts are awfully small potatoes — a bulldozer running amok, an amusement park ride speeding out of control, some prankish teenagers scheming to turn the girl’s shower into a steambath.
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The range-topping version of the company’s flagship SUV looks awfully similar to the Ferrari Purosangue and features a dual-motor powertrain that makes 990 hp.
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In practice, this meant that the state set abysmally low standards for what students should learn to advance and graduate.
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Reports on abysmally low rates of recycling for milk cartons and polystyrene had been widely shared even before that.
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Secondly, they were very poorly promoted.
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Another reason some people respond poorly to GLP-1 drugs is because of their genetic makeup.
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Of all the horrendous nonsense we were forced to entertain this spring, none of it was more horrendously nonsensical than the idea of people vibe-coding their own cybersecurity solutions.
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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.
Adverb
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Manny Machado apparently hates analytics, which is an odd thing to blame for his horrifically slow first two-plus months of the season.
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The episodes show, somewhat horrifically, clips of the police interview with a young Gavin Arvizo.
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“Disastrously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disastrously. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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