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Adverb
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The lawsuit claims suppression of speech, retaliation, unreasonable seizure, unreasonably prolonged seizure, excessive force, false imprisonment and common law battery.—
Jennifer Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
23 Oct. 2025 -
Many people in your situation would begin to believe, not unreasonably, that their expertise is sufficient to guide them through the season.—
Andy Behrens,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Divorce court for the obscenely moneyed is the ideal venue for observing this particular kind of specimen.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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The narrative of the obscenely rich exploiting every link in the chain to amass more wealth — at the expense of shareholders, government banks and the people of India — was the old story.—
Snigdha Poonam,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Many have noted that the health care system in the United States is an inefficient, unconscionably expensive, gawd-awful mess.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
24 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Before too long, the day would be unbearably hot.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Read more about this unbearably adorable two-month-old baby pygmy hippopotamus at the link in bio.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
14 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Instead of keeping the ball tucked, Mitchell tried to extend it and inexcusably lost the ball.—
James Boyd,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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After the storm, attempts to rescue people trapped in their homes and to get them out of town were inexcusably slow.—
Nicholas Lemann,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
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But the fact that single men are deciding to start families on their own, some of them paying extravagantly for egg donation and surrogacy, might also say something about just how important fatherhood is for many men today.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Extortionately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extortionately. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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