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Recent Examples of duly And every step in the life of daughter Luca (Maja Bons), from conception to current 16-year-old status, has been duly shared with the world. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025 When India decided this spring that the Pakistani singer Ali Zafar was a national security menace, his Instagram account was duly blocked. Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books, 25 Sep. 2025 New internet companies like Yahoo grew and grew, and Blitzer and his colleagues duly added them to the S&P 500. Alex Mayyasi, NPR, 23 Sep. 2025 And for that, we were duly rewarded. Stefanie Waldek, AFAR Media, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for duly
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Adverb
  • Unhealthy roots can’t properly absorb nutrients the plant needs.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The lawsuit alleges the property was not properly licensed for rental and did not have appropriate smoke detectors.
    Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • This demands a much higher degree of commitment, but also results in a much greater feeling of accomplishment when done correctly.
    William Jones, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Keeping Instagram updated on both devices ensures all settings and parental controls function correctly and new supervision features are available.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Elsewhere, the details lifted from the book suffer in translation – Branagh’s Victor is appropriately arrogant but not adequately tortured; De Niro’s Monster is sensitive and intuitive, but drowns in the film’s hurried, hollow second half.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Adler’s suggestions to AI companies, which are laid out in his Substack analysis, include staffing support teams appropriately, using safety tooling properly, and introducing gentle nudges that push users to cut chat sessions short and start fresh ones to avoid a relapse.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The combo is a winning recipe that has kept this neighborhood favorite happily busy since 1993.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Barrymore happily sniffed both Anderson and Mathews’ feet — which were both deemed to be scentless, thank you very much — during a discussion about their now-viral foot footage on Friday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Duly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duly. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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