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Recent Examples of disturbingly
Apparently, disturbingly short.
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Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Presciently, disturbingly, Chocobar’s murder occurred on October 12, a day commemorated in Argentina as the start of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
After a few times, Sheryl Crow is disturbingly proficient at the task.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
The Kremlin, however, soon engaged in a series of disturbingly aggressive actions.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
But the build-up to the disturbingly absurd twist — which is becoming a Cregger signature — is so worth it.
—Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 8 Aug. 2025
Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Presciently, disturbingly, Chocobar’s murder occurred on October 12, a day commemorated in Argentina as the start of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
After a few times, Sheryl Crow is disturbingly proficient at the task.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
The Kremlin, however, soon engaged in a series of disturbingly aggressive actions.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
But the build-up to the disturbingly absurd twist — which is becoming a Cregger signature — is so worth it.
—Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disturbingly
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Remarkably — and alarmingly to all but the most Anglo-centric observer — that is more than the French, German, Italian and Spanish leagues combined.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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Childhood is a time of enchantment, and a mother is a daughter’s first sorceress—omnipotent, enthralling, sometimes alarmingly so.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Advertisement Opioid addiction is distressingly common in nearly every contact and combat sport, but Kerr was isolated from the endemic abuse of painkillers in the industry.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Naturally, the theft of the ghost shirt by the stooges in the employ of Roy Lee is accompanied by many deceased bodies — the first of the many bloodbaths in Americana, which has a distressingly expedient approach to on-screen carnage.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The value of the floating pound sank disgustingly, and this strategy was soon abandoned.—
Nathan Lewis,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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After Jeremiah gets disgustingly drunk at his bachelor party, Conrad finds out that Jeremiah cheated on Belly in Cabo.—
Dina Kaur,
AZCentral.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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There is, of course, a difference here, that being the fact that Netflix has annoyingly split season 2 of Wednesday into two parts, with the second airing on September 3, a month after the first.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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New York Yankees captain Aaron Judge is climbing the home run leaderboard awfully quickly.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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For a movie about a man running from the emptiness within, Ballad of a Small Player rings awfully hollow.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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But there’s also darkness in Cherry’s past, including an ex-boyfriend who has either terribly wronged her or been terribly wronged by her.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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And what if that fight didn’t go terribly well?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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This subtle bait and switch from a national identity crisis to a personal identity crisis is imaginative and, for a time, intriguing, with Gadebois doing some very heavy lifting as the bad guy that means well but, nevertheless, behaves appallingly.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
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The novel was adapted into a successful play, and Carson followed it with two sequels, before her death from cancer, in 1941, by which time the prescience of her fiction had become appallingly evident.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
19 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Sometimes prosthetics are required, or fake teeth, or horribly unflattering wigs.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Sep. 2025
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Timing that shortest of all short windows between when an avocado is hard as rock and horribly black and squishy has become one of the millennium’s many small trials in life (for avocado fans at least).—
Mark Faithfull,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Disturbingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disturbingly. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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