encyclopedically

adverb

as in all over

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for encyclopedically
  1. all over
  2. entirely
  3. fully
  4. completely
  5. totally
  6. wholly
  7. thoroughly
  8. comprehensively
Adverb
  • Wearing rubber gloves, use a sponge to spread the mixture all over the bottom of the oven.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 26 June 2026
  • Netflix content is all over town this week and later today execs will speak about its anime offering.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 23 June 2026
Definition of all over
Adverb
  • The second half belonged entirely to Nashville, which exposed Miami’s disorganized defense.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 16 Aug. 2026
  • This event is run entirely by museum volunteers, and all profits will benefit museum operations.
    — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of entirely
Adverb
  • The study hypothesized that the sickle was added before the body fully decomposed since no joints were detached or displaced, as archaeologists would expect if a grave were to be disturbed after the body became a skeleton.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Most famously, Iwao Hakamada spent decades on death row over a 1966 quadruple murder before being released in 2014 and fully exonerated in 2024 at the age of 88.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of fully
Adverb
  • Accessible only by boat and completely untouched, CNN’s Leroy Ah Ben explores this gem known mostly to locals.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • When the researchers removed the neurons, the heart stopped functioning completely.
    — Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of completely
Adverb
  • On runway day, Naheim and Bryan have totally pivoted from their original designs.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Stuart Fails to Save the Universe indeed came up with a fun, clever premise…and then apparently just decided to stop trying there; everything else about the series is totally lackluster.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of totally
Adverb
  • Phillips 66 has a chemicals joint venture with Chevron that each side has a right of first refusal to acquire wholly; previous efforts to sell the business from both Chevron and Phillips’ end have run into hurdles, other people said.
    — Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Krishnan rightly points out that actively suppressing language ought to be condemned, but that suppression and obsolescence are wholly different.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of wholly
Adverb
  • The Iran fiasco has thoroughly exposed the hollowness of hawkish calls for war and promises of decisive action.
    — MARC LYNCH, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Gregory drew her as mean, menacing, and thoroughly indifferent to male-centric standards of beauty and decorum.
    — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of thoroughly
Adverb
  • Using a suite of imaging technology, Henrik Birkedal and the team comprehensively mapped the tusk's structure across multiple scales and found masterful structural work at play on the microscopic level.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Consumer browsers aren’t designed to comprehensively enforce security on all the actions a user might take.
    — Mazy Dar, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of comprehensively
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