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Recent Examples of goodly At a goodly height, the device’s fuel seemed to fail, and the rocket began a slow tumble earthward. Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 28 July 2025 Sure, fans loved seeing the two stars share the stage for a goodly number of songs. Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 30 May 2025 Even so, the goodly nerds over at Virginia Tech have partnered with the Insurance Institute for Highways Safety (IIHS) to rate 238 bike helmets using the STAR evaluation system. Chris Cona, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2025 All-Black groups got some money, but groups that had a goodly amount of white liberals got much more. Garrett Morris, TIME, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for goodly
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Adjective
  • There are also several large time skips as the play picks up speed and focuses less on the group in favor of exploring Lizzie’s mother and their family in its second act.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
  • In this pact, China agreed to make large agricultural and energy purchases and strengthen commitments to protect intellectual property and technology.
    Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Jays still face a considerable challenge in this Series.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • After considerable time, referee Cal McNeill announced that the ruling on the field — even though there had not been any indication of one — was that the ball indeed hit a Nevada player and was recovered by the Broncos.
    Jim Keyser, Idaho Statesman, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Lanthimos’s gaze, so exactingly attuned to human ugliness, has seldom given us lovelier things to look at.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Those milpas were really lovely, a fit setting for hunting the smartest, gamest bird in the Southwest.
    Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Hans is engaged to a fellow performer, but Cleopatra has her eyes on Hans’s sizable inheritance.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The Indie Gaming Boom and Democratization of Development Over the past several years, there has been a sizable uptick in the quantity and quality of independent gaming ventures.
    Jason Phillips, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • If Pauli’s theory of neutrinos were correct, then each of these sets of reactions, both fission and fusion, would emit neutrinos each with a substantial amount of energy (in the ~MeV, or mega-electron-volt, range) to them.
    Big Think, Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
  • And few will qualify for the New Jersey family’s tutoring job, as the listing details some substantial requirements.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In a nutshell, the Trojan prince Paris sails to Sparta to capture Helen, the beautiful wife of the king of Sparta, Menelaus.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Your partnership is beautiful to watch.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Oppenheim Group's latest agent didn't get off to a great start with fellow soap alum Chrishell Stause.
    Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
  • At great risk, Hamida disguises herself as a khes (a thick cotton cloth) seller and enters the house to plan with Lajo an escape route.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Both ends of the leash will simply enjoy having people pet the therapy dog, chat with the handler, try to calm their nerves before running their big race, and, hopefully, have a significant, measurable feeling of relaxation.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The companies that figure out how to orchestrate these cybernetic teams—where AI truly functions as a teammate rather than just a tool—will have a significant competitive advantage in the innovation economy.
    François Candelon, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025

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“Goodly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goodly. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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