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Recent Examples of disastrously
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.
—ABC News, 16 May 2026
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
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
Guys can be disastrously tough to shop for, but the best gift ideas for men don’t have to involve a brainteaser.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 23 Mar. 2026
The second trip, of course, went disastrously wrong, but less than a year later, Prager, Cochise, and two other crew members made the run for the third time in as many years, this time netting close to 10,000 pounds of product and successfully running it to Florida.
—Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
Their relentless and slick positional rotations routinely pull opponents disastrously out of shape, allowing their blistering speed and dribbling skill to exploit the space created, aided by the attacking thrust of Nuno Mendes and Achraf Hakimi from the full-back positions.
—Liam Twomey, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
They can be done imperfectly without being done disastrously.
—Leslie John, Time, 27 Feb. 2026
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
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
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
Guys can be disastrously tough to shop for, but the best gift ideas for men don’t have to involve a brainteaser.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 23 Mar. 2026
The second trip, of course, went disastrously wrong, but less than a year later, Prager, Cochise, and two other crew members made the run for the third time in as many years, this time netting close to 10,000 pounds of product and successfully running it to Florida.
—Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
Their relentless and slick positional rotations routinely pull opponents disastrously out of shape, allowing their blistering speed and dribbling skill to exploit the space created, aided by the attacking thrust of Nuno Mendes and Achraf Hakimi from the full-back positions.
—Liam Twomey, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
They can be done imperfectly without being done disastrously.
—Leslie John, Time, 27 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disastrously
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When a chance encounter with a distraught stranger on a subway goes horribly wrong, Reacher is drawn into a complex and deadly game that pits him against ruthless foes from the highest echelons of power.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
11 May 2026
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When a mysterious figure emerges from Judith’s past and a hit goes horribly wrong, both of their worlds are turned upside down as they’re forced to go on the run together.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
11 May 2026
Adverb
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Kyle has treated Amanda, who suffered as his side chick for years before being elevated to main chick, terribly.—
Marlow Stern,
Variety,
20 May 2026
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This isn’t terribly surprising given NASA’s wildly successful Artemis II mission carrying four astronauts around the Moon last month.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
19 May 2026
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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.—
Jonathan Cohen,
SPIN,
16 May 2026
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More than anything, this documentary is dreadfully dull.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
11 Mar. 2026
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Quatraro’s comment about not having 25 major-league quality players floating around may sound awfully familiar to Royals fans.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
22 May 2026
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Because Baggers are awfully low to begin with.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 May 2026
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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
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Through indefatigable research, Kara fixes poorly remembered facts and makes a decent case that the publicity galvanized the movement to abolish British slavery a half century later.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
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Just avoid natural stone materials like marble, which can react poorly to many cleaning products.—
Ryan Brennan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 May 2026
Adverb
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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.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
18 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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Olivia Simon, United States, 2025, WORLD PREMIERE Trapped alone in a haunted room, a paranormal researcher’s experiment goes horrifically wrong.—
William Earl,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2026
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Friendships fraying, puberty unevenly invading our bodies in ways both private and horrifically public.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Disastrously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disastrously. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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