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Recent Examples of disjointedly
The game ran poorly, crashed regularly, looked unremarkable, and drove disjointedly.
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Adam Ismail, The Drive, 25 Mar. 2026
Adam Ismail, The Drive, 25 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disjointedly
Adverb
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The filmmaker shows a strong handle over the film’s fanciful tone and fitfully filthy sense of humor, and he’s credited with composing the film’s score full of squawking brass instruments and skittish strings in addition to writing, directing and editing.—
Stephen Saito,
Variety,
16 Mar. 2026
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Bella Ramsey takes a break from killing zombies and avenging father figures, their usual pastimes in series The Last of Us, to fool around and fall in love in Sunny Dancer, a decidedly uneven but fitfully charming, YA-skewed British comedy-drama.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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A student seated next to me laughed intermittently during Vance’s remarks.—
Isaac Stanley-Becker,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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Yet Levinson only feints intermittently in that direction, and his greater failure is how thin these characters feel.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Tariff rates shifted so unpredictably for so long that companies are still struggling to build stable, long-term supply chains.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2026
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Because this form of cancer can metastasize so quickly and unpredictably, the only surefire method of prevention is a complete removal of the stomach, or total gastrectomy.—
Sarah Zhang,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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At university, Karp focused his research on how people unconsciously transfer aggression through language.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
13 Apr. 2026
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In presenting the Best Actor winners, Adrien Brody perfectly, if perhaps unconsciously, echoed Johnson’s remarks from more than 50 years earlier.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Never click on suspicious links Some scams prompt you to click on a link that takes you to a fake website to gather your personal information or unintentionally download malware onto your computer.—
Jasmin Suknanan,
CNBC,
10 Apr. 2026
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Between unintentionally funny goofs and allegations of affairs, the casting directors struck gold with this one.—
Tiffany Kelly,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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These historic moments are often long overdue in a way that inadvertently highlights how far behind the curve the festival was at one point, and, to some degree, continues to be.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2026
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Another concern with this practice is that American diners don’t expect this, and might inadvertently tip another 20 percent.—
Allyson Reedy,
Denver Post,
15 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Rather than receiving traditional care, however, Hylton was unwittingly plunged into a cold experiment in using remote work to offset hospital staffing shortages, which could be a grim portent in an age of AI automation.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
8 Apr. 2026
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Alexander-Arnold has always felt like a footballer unwittingly at the centre of a culture war, someone about whom few people have mild opinions.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Even in the harshest descriptions of the violence and almost unbelievably cruel twists of fate that Yarris endured (the DNA testing keeps getting accidentally mucked up), Brody lends him a vital indomitable spark.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
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Field told police the gun went off accidentally during the robbery, killing Lopez.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Disjointedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disjointedly. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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