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Adverb
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The market isn't terribly deep for that need this winter.—
Tim Crowley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025 -
This was natural mummification, a possible if not terribly likely occurrence in the dry cool February climate of Santa Fe, in this case in the confines of a private modern house.—
Joy Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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That stat is going to be awfully difficult to beat.—
Tyler Geis,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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That debate can seem awfully quaint.—
Rhian Sasseen,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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What has become horribly and painfully obvious post-strike is that as the challenges facing our business have risen, the press and the chatter has gotten way more negative.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
Adverb
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Ohtani didn’t fare so poorly himself, hitting a two-run home run in the seventh inning off Braydon Fisher.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Unfortunately, a major drug trial for a new indication went poorly.—
Paulina Likos,
CNBC,
24 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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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
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“Dreadfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dreadfully. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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