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as in specially
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as in ornately
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fancily
Adverb
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Hummingbird & Butterfly Wildflower Seed mix is specially designed to attract Hummingbirds to your yard.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 June 2026 -
For this contract, the R80D SkyRaider drone has been specially configured with semi-autonomous CBRN search and survey capabilities developed under the CSIRP program.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
7 June 2026
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The one-shoulder dress was designed with a billowing, one-shoulder top with an ornately speckled red and white pattern motif throughout.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
10 June 2026
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At other times, the cage might be ornately gilded.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 May 2026
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While many cats make for independent pets who can entertain themselves, there are some breeds who are exceptionally affectionate.—
Madeline Gunderson,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
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While exceptionally rare, there is recent precedent for Missouri courts overturning elections.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2026
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On our first morning, Sara and I woke to one of the roughly 300 days of sun that Taos receives each year—gaudily beautiful weather for the end of February.—
Michael Paterniti,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Nov. 2025
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The siblings are heartachingly real, and minor characters are finely drawn.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
7 June 2026
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These finely ground powders are applied directly onto an ant hill and are especially advantageous for eliminating ant hills in hard-to-reach cracks and crevices, Smith says.—
Cori Sears,
The Spruce,
4 June 2026
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But where the exhibitions on Cribs were charmingly, sometimes garishly, idiosyncratic, today’s represent a subtler and often more generic version of taste.—
Kim Hew-Low,
The Atlantic,
10 Nov. 2025
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Dmitry’s con man partner, the oh-so-Russian called Vlad Popov, is excellently personified by the twinkly-eyed, merry Peyton Crim.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
9 June 2026
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The Basque has done excellently at Rayo Vallecano and Bournemouth but moving to Liverpool would be like progressing from Sunday school to the Vatican.—
Simon Hughes,
New York Times,
30 May 2026
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And Cayden Alley is endearing and playful as Damian, the school’s most flamboyantly gay student.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 June 2026
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Egerton, by contrast, gets to grandstand a bit more flamboyantly.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Fancily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancily. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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