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Adverb
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Not long ago, such an idea would have seemed dystopian; now, that’s just the everyday gig economy whittled down to its most cruelly efficient form.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
29 Aug. 2025 -
These are their memories of a player taken cruelly at the age of only 28.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The data speaks more harshly than any anecdote.—
Yermys Pena,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Importantly, the association urged owners not to discipline their pups harshly for the behavior.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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That truth, that bitterness, ought to cut more sharply than the Super Bowl shellacking.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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This allowed the craft to maintain control and stability even when sharply tilted against the current.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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An unprecedented marine heatwave in 2023 caused bleaching events that severely damaged many of Florida's reefs.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
3 Sep. 2025
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The boy made a full recovery, but was severely injured by bites to both legs.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Inside the agency, Dudek, ill-prepared for leadership or for DOGE’s murky agenda, was stumbling through the chaos in part by creating some of his own.—
Eli Hager,
ProPublica,
8 Sep. 2025
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Without the well or ill-intentioned guide of theological doctrine, everything stands poised to become a metaphor.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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The big wild card going into the fall will be the full impact of tariffs, expected to be felt acutely in the second half of the year.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
2 Sep. 2025
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La Sibilla and Cantina del Mare both produce wines with abundant salinity, and in the whites wines (from Falanghina Flegria), one senses the surrounding landscape acutely.—
Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Wryly funny and poignantly tender, Frank and Percy is a heartfelt, life-affirming tale about the courage to take a chance on love at any age.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
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At a couple of points, Ben Hania (whose work has often blurred the line between narrative and documentary) even brings in real footage of these people, poignantly placing them against their onscreen counterparts.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Hurtfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hurtfully. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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