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Adverb
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In other words, under the law of nuisance, a property owner can’t unreasonably use their property to damage another property, whether the damage is caused by ashes or by sound.—
Christopher A. Combs,
AZCentral.com,
23 Sep. 2025 -
Biden believed, not unreasonably, that his experience and temperament had uniquely positioned him to steady the ship.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
14 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Most of the obscenely immense rules governing eduction should also be given the heave-ho.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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These activists have obscenely defaced this beloved institution.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 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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Read more about this unbearably adorable two-month-old baby pygmy hippopotamus at the link in bio.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
29 Sep. 2025
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The production, directed by Simon Godwin from a version by David Eldridge, takes a while to find itself, perhaps because Ibsen dumps exposition into an unbearably clunky first scene or because the play doesn’t introduce its heart, Hedvig, for nearly half an hour.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
18 Sep. 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 6 Oct. 2025.
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