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Recent Examples of disastrously
In retaliating against the Union, TSG decided to disastrously impact its employees, its guests, local businesses, and our community.
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Austen Erblat, CBS News, 27 Dec. 2025
Scientists have debated how much unnatural warming — built up in greenhouse gases released by burning fossil fuels — is likely to tip us into disastrously unmanageable weather systems.
—Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 1 Dec. 2025
For example, when OpenAI's ChatGPT launched in late 2022 and quickly went viral, Google hastily and disastrously stood up Gemini.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
Two, how is a glass jar of fig jam supposed to plummet from its shelf without cracking disastrously before retrieval?
—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
Austen Erblat, CBS News, 27 Dec. 2025
Scientists have debated how much unnatural warming — built up in greenhouse gases released by burning fossil fuels — is likely to tip us into disastrously unmanageable weather systems.
—Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 1 Dec. 2025
For example, when OpenAI's ChatGPT launched in late 2022 and quickly went viral, Google hastily and disastrously stood up Gemini.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
Two, how is a glass jar of fig jam supposed to plummet from its shelf without cracking disastrously before retrieval?
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disastrously
Adverb
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The unwanted babies suffer horribly.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
4 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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The data center industry does not have a terribly good answer for this, except that their 83° sun-synchronous orbit is much less crowded than equatorial ones, meaning a lower risk of collisions.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Jan. 2026
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Polls, however, suggest the bill is not terribly popular with voters, which has left Republicans saying the White House must do a better job of selling it.—
Ryan Mancini,
The Hill,
31 Dec. 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
Adverb
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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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Multiple bettors placed high-stakes wagers on Rozier to perform poorly before the game, all of which won.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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The referendum also performed poorly in parts of north Mecklenburg west of Interstate 77, despite support for the plan in many precincts in the north to the east of the interstate.—
Caitlin McGlade,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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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
Adverb
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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 9 Jan. 2026.
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