Definition of fullynext
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Recent Examples of fully Keller police officers were dispatched to a crash on Texas 114 in Westlake early Friday and found a vehicle fully engulfed in flames, according to Keller Deputy Chief Ryan Coe. Mary Ella Hastings june 12, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 June 2026 Those issues never fully disappeared but were overshadowed by the brilliance of the soccer. Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026 One of Rinderknecht’s lawyers, Steve Haney, has said Rinderknecht has become a scapegoat for the Los Angeles Fire Department’s failure to fully extinguish the Lachman Fire (which reignited into the Palisades Fire). Swasti Singhai, USA Today, 12 June 2026 Unlike some of SpaceX’s other rockets, Starship is designed to be fully reusable, which could boost profit margins on the product another 10% from their current level, according to Wolfe. Tobias Burns, CNBC, 12 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for fully
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Adverb
  • Authorities will not be able to begin their investigation into the cause of the fire until it is completely extinguished, Heefner said.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • Rosa Emanuela Lo Faro, an Italian lawyer who represents some of the minors, told CNN that in some cases the children were completely cut off from their lives back in Ukraine.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
Adverb
  • New York City is systematically erasing its public seating.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 9 June 2026
  • For me, that means systematically cutting meetings that aren’t strictly necessary, keeping tabs on the latest AI tools to automate repetitive work, and blocking time for writing and strategizing how to improve our products.
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 4 June 2026
Adverb
  • The editors totally, completely, utterly rubbed my face it in this week.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Kinsella didn’t see the label as totally negative.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 10 Dec. 2025
Adverb
  • Rinsing them thoroughly helps keep these unfortunate extras off your plate, and also improves the flavor and texture of the peaches by removing any unwanted grit.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 14 June 2026
  • The ingredients are tumbled in a large slanted drum, allowing the hot, sticky asphalt cement to thoroughly coat the stones and sand.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2026
Adverb
  • The Brazilians aren’t quite ready to take it yet.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • But Mbappé couldn't quite get there in time.
    NBC News, NBC news, 17 June 2026
Adverb
  • In fact, the product’s popularity soared in the Victorian era, when the royal laundress credited her perfectly bright linens to the little blue additive, turning it into a household must-have.
    Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Native tepary beans are cooked perfectly al dente with carrots and nopales and garnished with red chile sauce and salsa verde.
    Von Diaz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Dec. 2025
Adverb
  • All this while presiding over the largest outbreak of measles in the US in more than two decades, which by June 2025 had killed three people in a wholly vaccine-preventable tragedy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • The wave of investment led by Google will be a chance to stitch a new neighborhood together, one not wholly dependent on office workers, said Ariella Gibson, a spokesperson for the Chicago Loop Alliance.
    Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
Adverb
  • When did living in New York become all about waiting in lines?
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 June 2026
  • From a box-score perspective, Brind’Amour’s case ranks similarly to that of Rick Tocchet, Bill Guerin and Ray Whitney, who are all unlikely to be inducted given other sure-thing candidates about to retire around the league.
    James Mirtle, New York Times, 17 June 2026

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“Fully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fully. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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