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Recent Examples of grimly
The $2 Billion Gamble Of Drug Discovery For any executive in the pharmaceutical or biotech space, the numbers are grimly familiar.
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Miguel Llorca, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
What emerges from her lifelong attempts at maintaining personal and public cohesion makes for grimly fascinating viewing, reflected in her public defamations in the media and the chilling private messages of support from her sympathizers.
—Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
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.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
The first trailer just dropped and the film looks as grimly compelling as its predecessor, while hopefully also retaining something of the 2025 film's heart.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
Mateta grew grimly accustomed to watching the youngster glide past him.
—Liam Twomey, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
Among the elderly, having difficulty bathing is as grimly determinative of mortality as having heart failure.
—Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Miguel Llorca, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
What emerges from her lifelong attempts at maintaining personal and public cohesion makes for grimly fascinating viewing, reflected in her public defamations in the media and the chilling private messages of support from her sympathizers.
—Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
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.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
The first trailer just dropped and the film looks as grimly compelling as its predecessor, while hopefully also retaining something of the 2025 film's heart.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
Mateta grew grimly accustomed to watching the youngster glide past him.
—Liam Twomey, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
Among the elderly, having difficulty bathing is as grimly determinative of mortality as having heart failure.
—Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grimly
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The brand has been slowly but steadily growing its own store fleet — even as the sisters remain determinedly behind the scenes.—
WWD Staff,
Footwear News,
10 Sep. 2025
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Star Trek is different; the resolutely sci-fi voyages of James T Kirk, Jean-Luc Picard, and their successors on the final frontier are much more likely to be underpinned by science or, at least, the franchise's version of it.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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At the center stands a bronze Caryatid by Louis Félix Chabaud, a classical guardian presiding over a resolutely modern space and anchoring the atrium from below.—
Erica Wertheim Zohar,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Even better, seven metro areas were firmly in buyers’ market territory, meaning there were at least six months of supply available for purchase.—
Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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Limit your interaction with them when possible and assert your boundaries firmly.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection strongly recommends that guests who use wheelchairs travel with a companion who can provide assistance.—
Amanda Eyre Ward,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Sep. 2025
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European leaders strongly condemned the drone incursions and demanded new sanctions against Moscow.—
Barbara Erling,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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But the push continues and so does the need to aggressively counter it.—
Mindy Lubber,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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One, as visible in the Photos app, is to let more of the underlying content shine through the top of the window, dimming it and diffusing it less aggressively.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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But the premise is more or less an excuse to make monologue jokes, which Bargatze did about everything from Severance’s confusing story line to the decidedly noneducational programming offered on the Learning Channel.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
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Even though the thing that comes back is decidedly not his little boy, what parent wouldn't at least be tempted to go to the same lengths to bring back their child, regardless of the danger?—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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If a surprise bill arrives, respond immediately and assertively.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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The Hurricanes booed savagely on road trips was music to the ears.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
29 Aug. 2025
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Lean, dark shapes-hungry, savagely eager to pounce upon any food that moved within killing range.—
Ben East,
Outdoor Life,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Grimly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grimly. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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