evasively

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Adverb
  • Jamian Juliano-Villani’s friezelike painting Women, 2024, offers a surreptitious turn on Marcel Duchamp and Eadweard Muybridge by featuring an ostensibly female figure with too many (and ambiguously gendered) appendages.
    Tim Griffin, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Linda is tasked with caring for her ambiguously ill child while her husband is out of town for work; their apartment ceiling collapses, forcing her and her daughter into a motel.
    Emma Alpern, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
    Helaine Williams, Arkansas Online, 11 Jan. 2026
  • After all, food, whether directly or indirectly, had opened doors for Lui throughout her life.
    Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 9 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • And the fact that lots of these startups ultimately sell to other startups circuitously makes things even more insular.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • This term means to praise someone excessively and insincerely.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • In the debt claims, individuals falsely allege government officials owe them money or property, in some cases claiming ownership of the victim’s home.
    Melody Gutierrez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Scientists at the military’s labs concluded that a change in the manufacturing process of some poppy seeds had led to contamination, causing service members to be falsely accused of abusing drugs.
    Lucas Waldron, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • And huge doses of vitamin C (once erroneously thought to stave off colds) can stomach upset, diarrhoea and, in extreme cases, kidney stones.
    The Week UK, TheWeek, 2 Jan. 2026
  • That website erroneously shows the department spent $304,920.
    Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 12 Dec. 2025
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“Evasively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evasively. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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