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Recent Examples of extraordinarily
Ordinary things hurt sometimes, and Evans was willing to do an ordinary thing that was in fact extraordinarily painful.
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Arpon Basu, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
For his debut collection at Chanel, Matthieu Blazy achieved the rare feat of rendering Gabrielle Chanel’s original legacy extraordinarily relevant, while making the recent past feel suddenly outdated.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
Applying machine learning alone would have required an extraordinarily large amount of data to train.
—Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
But the events of the winter have reverberated throughout the year, revealing a system so extraordinarily dysfunctional that multiple officers were arrested for murder and thousands of employees stopped reporting for work.
—Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
My hobby is extraordinarily kind to me.
—Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
But above all, Fernández and El Mimoso’s voices shine extraordinarily beautifully, delivering a performance that lingers even after its final note.
—Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025
Samples flown to the CDC in Atlanta demonstrated extraordinarily high levels — nearly every child urgently needed chelation to reduce the effects of lead poisoning.
—Tom Frieden, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Mack said that his brother was extraordinarily gracious during his last days in the hospital.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2025
Arpon Basu, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
For his debut collection at Chanel, Matthieu Blazy achieved the rare feat of rendering Gabrielle Chanel’s original legacy extraordinarily relevant, while making the recent past feel suddenly outdated.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
Applying machine learning alone would have required an extraordinarily large amount of data to train.
—Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
But the events of the winter have reverberated throughout the year, revealing a system so extraordinarily dysfunctional that multiple officers were arrested for murder and thousands of employees stopped reporting for work.
—Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
My hobby is extraordinarily kind to me.
—Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
But above all, Fernández and El Mimoso’s voices shine extraordinarily beautifully, delivering a performance that lingers even after its final note.
—Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025
Samples flown to the CDC in Atlanta demonstrated extraordinarily high levels — nearly every child urgently needed chelation to reduce the effects of lead poisoning.
—Tom Frieden, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Mack said that his brother was extraordinarily gracious during his last days in the hospital.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extraordinarily
Adverb
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The Shiller price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio—calculated by dividing share prices by earnings per share—is used as a long-term gauge of stock market valuations, often employed by investors to spot periods when the market is expensive or unusually cheap.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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The host explained the decision in an unusually brief and straightforward introduction to the episode.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Yes, the re-escalation of hostile rhetoric Friday was the proximate excuse for the market's uncommonly calm ascent to crack.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
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As the brand scales across North America, the bet is that common sense, done uncommonly well, is exactly what the market has been waiting for.—
Simon Mainwaring,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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While Florida’s issues have hit a national scale, the burden is carried by each player and coach singularly.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
16 Oct. 2025
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President Biden singularly stands out in his callous enabling of the horrors inflicted on Gaza for more than a year.—
Shibley Telhami,
Time,
13 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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While some diseases, like seasonal allergies, asthma, and autoimmune diseases, are known to cause eosinophilia, or an abnormally high number of these cells, the role of eosinophilia in chronic pain hasn’t been well explored.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 Oct. 2025
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The story of Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider follows Tanzaburo Tojima, a forty-year-old man who is abnormally obsessed with the Kamen Rider franchise.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
18 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The last six decades or so have been an extremely subtle hint, and the rest of us have cracked the code.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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In extremely dense fog where visibility is near zero, the best course of action is to first turn on your hazard lights, then simply pull into a safe location such as a parking lot of a local business, and stop.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
17 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Federal mortgage-fraud prosecutions are exceptionally rare.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
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Unfortunately, the conditions for pushing through such an amendment — a two-thirds majority from both houses of Congress and a three-fourths majority from state legislatures, as outlined in Article V — have proven exceptionally demanding.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
10 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Wright said Ad Land’s contribution to paying off the annual rights bill has been remarkably consistent over the last 10 years, holding steady at around that 50% mark despite a range of marketplace disruptions and various spasms at the macroeconomic level.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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Hornstull Occupying the upper floor in the main house of this 1779-era property, this apartment offers remarkably high ceilings and a beautiful garden.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
15 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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With someone like Charles, whose world is incredibly high-pressure and constantly moving — and a big thing is trust.—
Kanika Talwar,
Footwear News,
16 Oct. 2025
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But playing shortstop in the big leagues at an elite level is incredibly difficult.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Extraordinarily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extraordinarily. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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