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Recent Examples of eminently In Chernow’s defense, hard decisions—on what gets included and what left out—are the cost of doing business for a biographer who wants to produce a readable life, and his Twain is eminently readable. John Jeremiah Sullivan, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025 For three decades now, this quartet of college pals have produced an impressive body of work that is eminently hummable, a cornucopia of earworms that everyone knows even if most folks would fail to come up with the names of their songs. Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 2 June 2025 Crespo’s proposed idea sounds eminently sensible: Freeze state government hiring and impose an across-the-board reduction in discretionary spending. Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2025 And his characters, while eminently unlikable, all have flashes of tragic humanity. Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for eminently
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Adverb
  • Her long, dark hair was messily waved, hanging past her shoulders like a shawl, while her eyebrows were shaved extremely thin, leaving little room for any expression other than a sly smile.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 1 July 2025
  • While both the House and Senate bills proposed language that was extremely harmful to the pass-through entity community, the final Senate bill passed made significant modifications that will encourage continued investments via pass through entities.
    Lynn Mucenski Keck, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Adverb
  • Embarking on the journey of franchising a business can be a very daunting step, but taking time to identify a franchising style that works for you and your business and to build a model that is authentic to you should make that journey a much easier one.
    Fiona Simpson, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Don’t overdo it; a very small amount of concealer is more than enough.
    Laura Solla, Vogue, 1 July 2025
Adverb
  • This suggests that the issues that may have caused both the engines to fail likely occurred at nearly the same moment— a highly unusual scenario, experts said.
    Mika Gröndahl, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • However, questions remained as to whether the highly enriched uranium that Iran would need to develop a nuclear weapon was at the site at the time.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2025
Adverb
  • Both Marlins righties are incredibly talented and expected to be available at the trade deadline.
    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
  • The film obviously has some major horror elements with the infected charging about, but also some tender moments with the family and then an incredibly emotional scene towards the end of the film.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 25 June 2025
Adverb
  • But from the first breath, Roxy sensed something was terribly wrong.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 24 June 2025
  • Then in April 2021, Granda’s plan to escape went terribly wrong.
    Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 24 June 2025
Adverb
  • The car scenes are rough, authentic, and often deeply compelling — mainly because the fresh-faced Bridges is so damned charismatic.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 June 2025
  • While Nintendo mostly conceded the corporate tug-of-war over graphical prowess back in 2006 with the Wii, the general plateau of visual enhancements over the last two generations means that games running on Switch 2 look pretty damned good even compared to more premium devices.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
Adverb
  • Furthermore, the definition of disabled is often too narrow: more than one third of non-working adults classified as able-bodied by SNAP report having a disability that impedes their ability to work.
    Emily Eisner, New York Daily News, 29 June 2025
  • People who rely on Medicaid access and funds for federal food aid would come out on the short end of the stick under the plan, too.
    Savannah Kuchar, USA Today, 29 June 2025
Adverb
  • Meanwhile…things haven’t looked so good for Starbucks in China recently, and not just because its baristas can’t spell names in Chinese characters, either.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 2 July 2025
  • Doing so helped to clarify ongoing gaps in accessibility, which states could then strategically address in future iterations of grant program design.
    Linda Darling-Hammond, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025

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“Eminently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eminently. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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