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as in casual
having a relaxed, casual manner
counselors at the summer camp are pretty easygoing
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as in relaxed
not bound by rigid standards
some men are pretty easygoing about housekeeping
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Recent Examples of easygoing
The feat, coupled with her easygoing personality and signature bleached halo hair, launched her to global fame.
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Zara Irshad, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
But even the most easygoing athletes realize that the desperation of a losing bettor can lead to scary places.
—Mckay Coppins, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
Their earthy, easygoing designs channel their West Coast roots and unexpected color palettes are to be expected.
—Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 9 Mar. 2026
But on his latest album, In My Dreams, recorded between live shows and the studio, the easygoing savant stops to assess his indefatigable career, still equipped with his signature experimentalism and his longstanding penchant for collaboration.
—Archie Forde, Pitchfork, 6 Mar. 2026
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Zara Irshad, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
But even the most easygoing athletes realize that the desperation of a losing bettor can lead to scary places.
—Mckay Coppins, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
Their earthy, easygoing designs channel their West Coast roots and unexpected color palettes are to be expected.
—Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 9 Mar. 2026
But on his latest album, In My Dreams, recorded between live shows and the studio, the easygoing savant stops to assess his indefatigable career, still equipped with his signature experimentalism and his longstanding penchant for collaboration.
—Archie Forde, Pitchfork, 6 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for easygoing
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The podcast aesthetic—casual, long-winded, sometimes profane—directly opposes, perhaps not coincidentally, the sterility and bizarre right-this-minute quality of cable news, on which everything seems incomplete and therefore manipulative, and yet somehow endless.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2026
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The result is a smaller but more engaged core market — one that is spending more per household even as casual participation declines.—
Asaf Elia-Shalev,
Sun Sentinel,
23 Mar. 2026
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Shatner deftly presents Kirk's delicate handling of interstellar trader Cyrano Jones's multiplying annoyances with a gentle humor and relaxed resignation as to the absurdity of the situation aboard the Enterprise.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
22 Mar. 2026
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At tempos both exhilarating and more relaxed, the music was always going somewhere, with purpose and strategy.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
22 Mar. 2026
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And a true circadian rhythm, like ours, should also be unaffected by temperature.—
Marlowe Starling,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Mar. 2026
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This means that the gas is not connected to the production of crude oil and is unaffected by decisions to raise or lower output according to, for example, OPEC quotas.—
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2026
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The overall goal is to create a more responsive and flexible defensive shield around the carrier.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Mar. 2026
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In 2025, after four years of work, the process yielded a flexible house that now serves both as a hospitality space for Scribe Winery events and a guest retreat for extended family.—
Leonora Epstein,
Architectural Digest,
19 Mar. 2026
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The 3mm lugs provide secure footing on mellow dirt and gravel surfaces, while still allowing the shoe to run smoothly on roads—there’s no slapping sound or feel of hard rubber hitting pavement, or clunkiness from toothy lugs meant for super-technical terrain.—
Lisa Jhung,
Outside,
16 Mar. 2026
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Things could be settling into a more mellow vibe.—
Magi Helena,
Dallas Morning News,
12 Mar. 2026
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Scott inflicts Ohm’s nonchalant meanness with a piercingly perverse matter-of-factness that places the character as far away as possible from the realm of likeability.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2026
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Margot Robbie’s understanding of the assignment is evident, her fringe frame coupled with a low and loosely bound ponytail (another hallmark of the nonchalant set).—
Calin Van Paris,
InStyle,
11 Mar. 2026
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Pahlavi, stuck in limbo, became less affable, more combative.—
Azadeh Moaveni,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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That’s what global trailers sold, in addition to the affable Gosling.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
22 Mar. 2026
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The service Service is friendly, but informal, reflecting the relaxed Malibu energy.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
19 Mar. 2026
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That reflects poorly on the speaker, who has an informal rule that no major bill will move to the floor unless at least 60 of his chamber’s 78 Democrats support it.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Easygoing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/easygoing. Accessed 24 Mar. 2026.
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