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helpfully

adverb

as in finely

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Recent Examples of helpfully The video screen helpfully displayed the lyrics, but nobody needed a prompt. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2026 The woman who had compiled the Handy Hints book helpfully explained these technical details to Flynn, whispering in his ear like someone translating a foreign language. — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026 The motion helpfully offers an example of how a hindering information document could have been properly written. — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Sep. 2026 Lindsay helpfully published a list of ten resources for debunking the most persistent falsehoods related to the attacks. — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026 Deadline’s film team are adding to this useful central article compiling every entry, and have helpfully explained how new rules are allowing new types of films to compete. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2026 This view helpfully shows key numbers (such as resolved requests, involvement rate, resolution rate) at the top, along with a funnel that visualizes visualizing how requests are resolved (with AI or humans). — Dianna Gunn, PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2026 Freud once helpfully distinguished that healthy thing, mourning, from melancholia—the mourning that never ends, grief that is unable to let the lost object go. — Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026 The game helpfully signals turns and obstacles with various signs that pop up on screen. — Jay Peters, The Verge, 18 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for helpfully
  1. finely
  2. magnificently
  3. advantageously
  4. happily
  5. grandly
  6. sweetly
  7. delightfully
  8. charmingly
Adverb
  • That friction, between floppy and finely made, sits at the heart of Esh’s ever-evolving vision for his namesake label.
    — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The characters around Alex and Ruari are less finely shaded, some for the better and some for the worse.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of finely
Adverb
  • In a dangerous time, Heather Cox Richardson has upheld those values magnificently.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Hüller is mesmerizing in what initially feels like a silent-film performance, magnificently expressive and physical, before the emotional wallop of the final act.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of magnificently
Adverb
  • Alternatively, its bigger brother Deadman’s is advantageously located near the main lodge and water sports pavilion for the easiest beach day ever.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Supporters of the administration view this back and forth as a cunning ploy to buy time for the United States to position itself more advantageously for a confrontation.
    — Leonard A. Schuette, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of advantageously
Adverb
  • As the two older girls dig through bins and happily run around with their shopping bags, their stepmom peruses the shelves with her 4-year-old, Galya.
    — Debbie Elliott, NPR, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Traditional KVMs live happily around racks and network switches.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of happily
Adverb
  • But Hynde makes the song as accusatory, and grandly symphonic, as a great Phil Spector track.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
  • What’s unusual is to see these elements presented so grandly on a stage as big as The Bushnell’s and presented in a manner that doesn’t compromise a dark tale of anger, revenge, dangerous romance, desperation and survival.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2026
Definition of grandly
Adverb
  • Tonally, The Stunt Driver is something special — very funny but also sweetly sincere.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2026
  • In a profoundly prolific decade, Texas singer-songwriter Charley Crockett has refined a soulful country purview, crooning sweetly about love and perseverance in misfortune and yielding rave reviews and Grammy nominations.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of sweetly
Adverb
  • The payoff of those 30 years spent experimenting, playing with ingredient permutations, and cultivating an international following is the dedicated pizzaiolo's delightfully airy where the devil is in the dough.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Emma Corrin wore a delightfully bizarre Miu Miu ensemble in 2021.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of delightfully
Adverb
  • There’s a charmingly old-school simplicity to the proceedings.
    — Bradley Iger, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2026
  • In 2017, Fertitta bought into the EMM Group, which owned the charmingly gimmicky Meatpacking District seafood restaurant Catch, before restructuring it under his main corporate umbrella in 2021.
    — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of charmingly

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