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Recent Examples of duly Custom dictates that the country of the contest’s winner hosts the next edition, so Austria was duly set as the location when JJ won Eurovision 2025 with ‘Wasted Love’. Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2025 The popular LizaMinnelliOutlives account on X duly noted that Minnelli, 79, has outlived the MSNBC name. Todd Spangler, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025 Dubin duly provides — with the assistance of stories from his time as an executive coach and his own experience — a method for identifying these issues. Roger Trapp, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025 Three Swarm spacecraft duly launched on a SpaceX rocket in December. IEEE Spectrum, 4 Apr. 2019 See All Example Sentences for duly
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Adverb
  • Castle, who has accused the Navy of mishandling her daughter's disappearance, said during a press conference in June that her daughter's body was left exposed for days and was not properly preserved or prepared for viewing.
    Deena Zaru, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In a Canadian industry where for years doors were mostly closed to Black talent, and financing that came through when doors opened was meagre, the BSO report urges Black content creators be properly financed to build sustainable careers and businesses.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Operations is responsible for ensuring those resources are provisioned correctly, reachable by the right services and compliant with organizational policy.
    Ronak Desai, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • After just one dose, participants answered more questions correctly, made fewer mistakes, and responded faster.
    Sarah Jividen, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The prospect of clawbacks of government support, as well as the retroactive revocation of tariff exemptions and tax breaks, should provide additional pressure for companies to build in America—and for markets to value domestic production appropriately.
    Joel Thayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • She was viciously beaten after having been detained by an officer who accused her of not dressing appropriately in public, in defiance of the country’s hijab rule, which broadly governs what women should wear.
    Fatemeh Jamalpour, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Miami happily obliged and thrived.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The actor is happily married to his longtime wife, Tomasina Tate.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Duly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duly. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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