as in perfectly
without any flaws or errors
an ideally executed routine on the parallel bars that earned him perfect scores from the judges
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Recent Examples of ideally
Intervention with supportive measures, ideally before age three, is critical for improving cognitive, social and communication skills.
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USA Today, 8 May 2025
If Celgene could create a new version of thalidomide — ideally one that didn’t cause birth defects — the company could seek more and stronger patents that would extend beyond those of the original drug.
—David Armstrong, ProPublica, 8 May 2025
The schedule-making team — a group that gets bigger every year — will react to which franchises got a little better or more interesting but ideally those improvements support scheduling decisions that have already been made, as opposed to justifying a start-from-scratch reboot.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
There is a long-term solution: putting Caltrain underground, ideally with a physical barrier like other cities that have reduced suicide access.
—Melissa Cook, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
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USA Today, 8 May 2025
If Celgene could create a new version of thalidomide — ideally one that didn’t cause birth defects — the company could seek more and stronger patents that would extend beyond those of the original drug.
—David Armstrong, ProPublica, 8 May 2025
The schedule-making team — a group that gets bigger every year — will react to which franchises got a little better or more interesting but ideally those improvements support scheduling decisions that have already been made, as opposed to justifying a start-from-scratch reboot.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
There is a long-term solution: putting Caltrain underground, ideally with a physical barrier like other cities that have reduced suicide access.
—Melissa Cook, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideally
perfectly
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Goin starts with gold and makes it into something more precious: say, as just one example, a salad of delicate, impossibly sweet lettuces paired with slices of firm, ripe avocado, moons of blood orange, new sugar snap peas and a light, fragrant, perfectly balanced basil-buttermilk dressing.—
Sam Sifton,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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My favorite looks, though, were always ones that perfectly encapsulated #MinnieStyle.—
Jamie Allison Sanders,
People.com,
18 May 2025
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“Ideally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideally. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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