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adverb

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Recent Examples of gingerly
Adjective
Zilpha gingerly examined her own feelings. Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025 He was seen walking gingerly with a slight limp at the end of practice coming out of the team’s facility … Backup left tackle James Hudson III fortunately returned to practice after leaving Wednesday’s with an apparent ailment. Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
Adverb
Unlike the gingerly approach to easing restrictions targeting the spread of the virus, the country is split over reopening businesses and schools. Kendall Karson, ABC News, 7 Mar. 2021 All the while, amid the unpacking of groceries and food prep and reminiscing, the group addresses in gingerly fashion the subject of Rose’s cancer. Alexandra Enders, The New York Review of Books, 26 May 2020 See All Example Sentences for gingerly
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gingerly
Adjective
  • But Eliasen is careful not to let scope creep derail initial implementations.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • So, be sure to scroll slowly and carefully!
    Kris Holt, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Artisans in Italy carefully spin and weave the yarn, printing and finishing each scarf by hand.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Other than in the Second Circuit, the federal courts of appeals generally have interpreted the Confrontation Clause to require face-to-face cross examination, and counsel should be wary of giving up that important right.
    Robert Anello, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • For decades, educators have been wary of the decline in critical thinking and its impact on undermining the very purpose of education.
    Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The Compliance Burden At its core, Schedule III classification means cannabis is formally recognized as having medical value, but access is tightly controlled.
    Robert Hoban, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Currently, China and India are the only two nuclear powers to formally maintain a no first use policy.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Employers increasingly wonder whether campuses are cultivating independent thinkers or just cautious followers.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The sum dwarfs most acquisitions this year — and marks TIFF’s first eight-figure deal in several editions — underlining the resilience of genre cinema at a time when studios and streamers alike are cautious.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The healthcare industry must methodically overcome these barriers through research, collaboration and governance.
    Somnath Banerjee, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • They were used to train death investigators and that's, they were developed to teach people to look very methodically at every detail of a crime scene.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Troublingly, Cal Fire’s flawed models systematically underestimate logging emissions and overestimate regrowth, conveniently ignoring how climate change hamstrings regrowth and fuels wildfires that release yet more emissions.
    John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Gingerly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gingerly. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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