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Adverb
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Governance reviews are boringly predictable, because the system just works.—
Kellie Romack,
Fortune,
29 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Cali remembered thinking, dully, that there was someone out there for everyone.—
Bryan Washington,
New Yorker,
7 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Today’s sloths – commonly featured on children’s backpacks, stationery and lunch boxes – are slow-moving creatures, living inconspicuously in Central American and South American rainforests.—
Aditya Reddy Kurre,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025
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They were carried out over two months, by crews working inconspicuously at night, and the parties then quietly resolved compensation and insurance claims.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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And where other services might interrupt their programming with commercials, the Looney Tunes ads count down unobtrusively and play in between each entry, preserving each punch line accordingly.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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All those sounds also have to blend in unobtrusively.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Drably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drably. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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