headily

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Adverb
  • The film isn’t trying to absorb or recklessly mirror the traumas of the Black family so much as make a case for its nuance.
    Jason Parham, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Officers arrived to find a Jeep Wrangler SUV driving recklessly and doing donuts in the intersection, according to an arrest-warrant affidavit.
    Chase Rogers, Dallas Morning News, 26 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • At today's prices, gold investing isn't something retirees can afford to treat casually or impulsively.
    Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • And then impulsively ordered the dates off their food menu.
    Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 28 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • Moreover, Elliott does not act impetuously in its activism.
    Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2025
Adverb
  • His eyes strained to decipher the hurriedly ornate calligraphy, which often bled to the other side of the sheet, making the documents even harder to read.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Multiple bilateral meetings aimed at finding a solution to the increasingly fraught war of words are being hurriedly arranged.
    Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • What began as an emergency measure cannot become a convenient default whenever there is snow on the ground or temperatures drop precipitously.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
  • New iterations and versions of AI systems have caused usage fees to fall precipitously, which the AVA team sees as a key advantage of AI tools given limited court budgets.
    Jared Perlo, NBC news, 3 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • With Mercury going retrograde in this part of the sky on February 26, just don’t sign anything too rashly or hastily, because the potential for errors and misunderstandings is high right now.
    Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Both teachers’ absences — and the district’s handling of the fallout — have sparked a months-long uproar, with parents alleging the district acted rashly and with little transparency.
    David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • But industry sources tell CNN that American oil executives are unlikely to dive headfirst into Venezuela for multiple reasons: The situation on the ground remains very uncertain, Venezuela’s oil industry is in shambles and Caracas has a history of seizing US oil assets.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Dive headfirst into the cool Mediterranean Sea from Plage des Marinières and lunch by the water at Casa Soleia's private beach club.
    Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2025
Adverb
  • The proliferation of novel cognitive frameworks through social media, as well as the election of corrupt and lawless people to high office, has intimidated the old elites into hastily reevaluating what is appropriate.
    Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Some cautioned European leaders to avoid reacting hastily to Trump’s tariff threat.
    Kevin Breuninger,Luke Fountain, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2026
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“Headily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headily. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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