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Recent Examples of gorgeously
The show’s palette trends toward bottle-green woods, gauzy golden light, dusky midnight-blue nighttime scenes, and grimly gray interiors, and within those tableaus, Task’s male characters are gorgeously aggrieved, emotion pouring off of them like coffee from a Wawa urn.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
The documentary begins gorgeously, with a blur slowly coming into focus.
—Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
The pistachio note becomes more prominent in the dry down, adding a creamy nuttiness that pairs gorgeously with the sandalwood base.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 7 Aug. 2025
All of this adds layer after layer, expertly crafted, and gorgeously acted by the ensemble cast Cregger and his team have put together.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Which makes this the perfect time to sink into a big (in this case 800+ pages), juicy, gorgeously written (in this case by a poet) American epic, which manages to wrap up decades of history in the engrossing story of one family.
—Literary Hub
june 21, Literary Hub, 21 June 2023
Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
The documentary begins gorgeously, with a blur slowly coming into focus.
—Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
The pistachio note becomes more prominent in the dry down, adding a creamy nuttiness that pairs gorgeously with the sandalwood base.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 7 Aug. 2025
All of this adds layer after layer, expertly crafted, and gorgeously acted by the ensemble cast Cregger and his team have put together.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Which makes this the perfect time to sink into a big (in this case 800+ pages), juicy, gorgeously written (in this case by a poet) American epic, which manages to wrap up decades of history in the engrossing story of one family.
—Literary Hub
june 21, Literary Hub, 21 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gorgeously
Adverb
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Ravn’s prose is striking too, richly marbled with quotation and detail pulled from primary source letters and court documents.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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Using faux chenille, a fabric manipulation technique that creates layered textures, Threadapeutic produces richly tactile works that can take three months to complete, such as Gather and Shore wall hangings made from lace, brocade and tulle scraps.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Most strikingly, 24% of patients were free of seizures – something rarely seen in a treatment-resistant population.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 Sep. 2025
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The Panthers need to continue to feed him, especially as Young looks so strikingly inconsistent.—
DIAMOND VENCES,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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That’s the spirit behind the AI Darwin Awards, which recognize the most spectacularly misguided uses of the technology.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Tahoe is an easy Editors' Choice winner thanks to its flexible customization options, innovative productivity tweaks, and spectacularly uniform look.—
Edward Mendelson,
PC Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis got along splendidly on the set of Black Swan — despite director Darren Aronofsky's best efforts.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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And talking of hackers and Windows, both came together rather splendidly in Las Vegas at the Black Hat hacking conference where it was demonstrated how the Windows Hello facial recognition sign-in security could be bypassed by a threat actor injecting their own images into the process.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The movie is an empty shell ornately decorated with eyecatching camera angles, an acidulously sun-bright palette, and whimsical dialogue.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2025
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These are all weapons specifically designed to annihilate outsiders trying to get inside the cities, weapons meant to cause the most pain for the amusement of the insiders (think a napalm bomb ornately decorated in the shape of a cone, which liquifies outsiders in seconds).—
Rafael Motamayor,
Vulture,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Gorgeously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gorgeously. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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