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Recent Examples of horrifically
The episodes show, somewhat horrifically, clips of the police interview with a young Gavin Arvizo.
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Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 3 June 2026
Olivia Simon, United States, 2025, WORLD PREMIERE Trapped alone in a haunted room, a paranormal researcher’s experiment goes horrifically wrong.
—William Earl, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
Friendships fraying, puberty unevenly invading our bodies in ways both private and horrifically public.
—Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
The mother of a girl who was horrifically wounded in a school shooting in Canada in February is suing OpenAI for not warning police about the killer, Jesse Van Rootselaar, according to reports.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 11 Mar. 2026
Olivia Simon, United States, 2025, WORLD PREMIERE Trapped alone in a haunted room, a paranormal researcher’s experiment goes horrifically wrong.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2026
The book explains the world order as three despotic governments that horrifically dominate their citizens, control their respective satellite allies and are always at war.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2026
Overall, European leaders’ positive reception of Rubio’s speech reflected how horrifically damaged the transatlantic relationship has been by the past year of turmoil over Ukraine, and month of arson over Greenland.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 15 Feb. 2026
Every three years, death strikes under mysterious circumstances, horrifically killing family members.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2026
Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 3 June 2026
Olivia Simon, United States, 2025, WORLD PREMIERE Trapped alone in a haunted room, a paranormal researcher’s experiment goes horrifically wrong.
—William Earl, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
Friendships fraying, puberty unevenly invading our bodies in ways both private and horrifically public.
—Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
The mother of a girl who was horrifically wounded in a school shooting in Canada in February is suing OpenAI for not warning police about the killer, Jesse Van Rootselaar, according to reports.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 11 Mar. 2026
Olivia Simon, United States, 2025, WORLD PREMIERE Trapped alone in a haunted room, a paranormal researcher’s experiment goes horrifically wrong.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2026
The book explains the world order as three despotic governments that horrifically dominate their citizens, control their respective satellite allies and are always at war.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2026
Overall, European leaders’ positive reception of Rubio’s speech reflected how horrifically damaged the transatlantic relationship has been by the past year of turmoil over Ukraine, and month of arson over Greenland.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 15 Feb. 2026
Every three years, death strikes under mysterious circumstances, horrifically killing family members.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horrifically
Adverb
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And those farmers are horribly disillusioned by this intensifying deflation and depression that spreads after 1873.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
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Film is a cultural industry, but the insiders are horribly out of touch with culture.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
8 June 2026
Adverb
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To be candid, our process was not terribly dramatic—there were no big fights, no couples counseling—other than the drama of racing to complete the project (or, at least, most of it) before the kids were born.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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While there are plenty of moments of necessary humor in the story, with Marquis flexing her knack for comic timing, other moments are terribly uncomfortable to grasp.—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
Adverb
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The announcer for his team sounds awfully familiar.—
Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
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Los Angeles – and particularly the community that surrounds Riviera, still in recovery mode from the devastating fires that ravaged Pacific Palisades in January, 2025 – also won, with this week-long reminder that this community is still awfully special, no matter what the haters say.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
8 June 2026
Adverb
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Part slasher parody, part meta commentary on the structure of horror movies, and fully riotous, Behind the Mask is a dreadfully under-appreciated contribution to the subgenre that would have made for a terrific franchise.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 June 2026
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Especially early in its career, Hum was dreadfully misclassified as just another soft-to-loud/Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana wannabe, and remained criminally under-appreciated for its heavy/stoner-friendly Midwestern shoegaze vibes long after its breakup.—
Jonathan Cohen,
SPIN,
16 May 2026
Adverb
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Of all the horrendous nonsense we were forced to entertain this spring, none of it was more horrendously nonsensical than the idea of people vibe-coding their own cybersecurity solutions.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
18 May 2026
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This way, the white people are exposed treating the Indigenous people horrendously — putting clothes on them, taking pictures without permission and treating them without respect.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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For a group of girls who wanted nothing more than to become doting wives and smiling mothers, the year could not have gone more disastrously.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
27 May 2026
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The growth of extremes, if unchecked, could lead to the kind of politics that disastrously poisoned the 1930s.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
Adverb
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Unfortunately and with frankly astonishing frequency, Mercedes chose poorly for this little sedan, over and over again.—
Adam Ismail,
The Drive,
11 June 2026
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It was both poorly handled and never a strong case.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2026
Adverb
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In practice, this meant that the state set abysmally low standards for what students should learn to advance and graduate.—
Rachel Canter,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
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Reports on abysmally low rates of recycling for milk cartons and polystyrene had been widely shared even before that.—
Susanne Rust
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Horrifically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horrifically. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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