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Recent Examples of helpfully
Vance helpfully points to the Scranton Chamber of Commerce website, which keeps a list of every business that’s closed in the last ten years.
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Michael Schneider, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Only 29% bothered to respond, and NYCHA helpfully lumped the demolition answers together to claim 57% support, triumphantly branding the whole charade as a vote.
—Layla Law-Gisiko, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025
LeMessurier’s firm helpfully provided her with drawings, plans and figures.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Thus, delusional disorders can be helpfully typified and researched by the particular delusion that is being expressed.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Five summers ago, we were told to wear masks, compelled to take vaccines, prohibited from looking at certain statues (which were helpfully torn down), and scolded for enjoying any movie or TV show that presented law enforcement officers empathetically or humanely.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
Michael Schneider, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Only 29% bothered to respond, and NYCHA helpfully lumped the demolition answers together to claim 57% support, triumphantly branding the whole charade as a vote.
—Layla Law-Gisiko, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025
LeMessurier’s firm helpfully provided her with drawings, plans and figures.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Thus, delusional disorders can be helpfully typified and researched by the particular delusion that is being expressed.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Five summers ago, we were told to wear masks, compelled to take vaccines, prohibited from looking at certain statues (which were helpfully torn down), and scolded for enjoying any movie or TV show that presented law enforcement officers empathetically or humanely.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for helpfully
Adverb
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Adverbs that pertain to cutting are also super important, like thinly, coarsely, or finely.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
31 Aug. 2025
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The Carrera gets a handful of modest exterior changes for 2025, such as tweaks to its lighting and front fascia, and the GTS trim gets active air intake flaps in the lower grille area to finely control aerodynamics and cooling.—
Peter Nelson,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The possibility feels very real in the magnificently tense opening scene, which counts down the minutes and seconds as Kiritsis takes Hall captive at his office and leads him several blocks through downtown Indianapolis with the titular device around his neck.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
2 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The Sound Of Music turns 60 this year – and Disney has happily opted to celebrate the occasion by remastering the film in 4K resolution and high dynamic range for a worldwide re-release at the cinema and on 4K Blu-ray disc.—
John Archer,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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With the family’s four dogs barking in the background, the actor, 43, happily leans into any disruptions.—
Julie Jordan,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Next morning at breakfast Amby complains grandly of his soreness.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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But the film’s wild, icy and rural visuals, captured grandly by cinematographer Tyson Perkins, are astonishingly gorgeous to meditate in.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Law and Coan were captured sitting at a table together inside the gala, with the actor leaning over at one point with a smile to tell his wife something and sweetly caressing her back.—
Jen Juneau,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Twenty-five years have passed since Paul Scholes met David Beckham’s corner so sweetly on the edge of the Bradford City penalty area that Matt Clarke stood no chance in the home goal.—
Max Mathews,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The seafood towers are delightfully tall, gleaming with mussels and smoked fish dip.—
Rai Mincey,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Prince Edward County is delightfully bikable and walkable, especially along the Millennium Trail and town cores.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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But these charmingly casual houses, many of them centuries old, come with a rigid spatial order that is antithetical to modern lifestyles.—
Joseph Giovannini,
Architectural Digest,
4 Sep. 2025
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Here he’s been renamed Vadim (or Vlad) Baranov and is played by Paul Dano in the actor’s charmingly offhand and cerebral manner.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Sly jokes and cute cameos sprinkle the rest of the film like holy water, and Wan himself even appears in a pleasantly pandering concluding scene that nails the spirit of fan service.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
7 Sep. 2025
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Inside, works by Casey McCafferty, John Hogan, Seungjin Yang, and others have created a conversation with the original design in ways that can feel pleasantly subversive.—
John Wogan,
Robb Report,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Helpfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helpfully. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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