as in carefully
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Adverb
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Towns then limps off the floor to the locker room, limps from the locker room to the podium, then walks gingerly out of the Gainbridge Fieldhouse, his status questionable for a win-or-go-home Game 5 back at Madison Square Garden with his team facing a 3-1 series deficit.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
31 May 2025 -
No one stumbled into creating a billion dollar company, gingerly broke a world record, or cautiously planned and lived their peak life.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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The ones that help clients think clearly, move deliberately and prepare for the rebound.—
Marc Cooper,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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It was sold to private owners, who renamed the ship Lord Sandwich, and deliberately sunk in Newport Harbor in the midst of war in 1778.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
17 June 2025
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“Formally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/formally. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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