gladsomely

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Adverb
  • The idea of replacing caddies with animals, lightheartedly suggested by moderator Eben Novy-Williams?
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Paltzik did not confirm the authenticity of the message but still suggested they were made lightheartedly.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 21 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The Villarreal friendly offered a glimpse of both the potential and the challenge.
    Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Lionel Messi in Las Vegas for an Inter Miami friendly shone a light on how sport is gravitating towards Nevada and the Strip.
    Phil Hay, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
Adverb
  • The Democrat had joked about shooting the Republican leader of the state House and blithely spoken of watching his children die in their mother’s arms.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Next came a disastrous interview with CBS’s Katie Couric in which Palin seemed to reveal herself to be uninformed and blithely incurious about most things unrelated to Alaska.
    Time, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • Everything bops breezily along, stopping occasionally to have Dek growl maxims about strength through domination, and observe a decapitation or two.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • It's been so fun watching Ariana Grande's look slowly, subtly move away from the gorgeous Glinda bubble she's been gladly trapped in for the last few years.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The hotel will also gladly arrange excursions to neighboring islands.
    Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • Kipnis describes her own mother laughingly recalling a college professor chasing her around a desk and trying to kiss her.
    S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • Consider Virginia McLaurin, who joyfully danced with the Obamas at age 106 and later supported youth mentoring, or Edith Renfrow Smith, now 110, whose advocacy for education continues to inspire.
    Norman B. Gildin, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Warming up, Smith throws back his head and belts Bieber lyrics, joyfully off-key.
    Sam Kestenbaum, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • Abu Daqqa shows videos set to music of him riding his sleek, silver and black machine, circling fast and joyously in the waves, testing its speed and agility.
    NPR, NPR, 24 Nov. 2025
  • They are felt as they are composed, painfully, joyously, cellularly—and they are designed for other biological beings to experience, to connect with, to be animated, provoked and moved by.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
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“Gladsomely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gladsomely. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.

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