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Recent Examples of impressively
Eventually, we were brought into the soundstage where a hype man impressively excelled in the thankless task of keeping the energy high.
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Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
Even the wood of the barrels, the surrounding lime aided its conservation impressively.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 Mar. 2026
The rapper, however, was impressively mobile and committed throughout the show despite his injury, which required him to wear an ankle boot and use a stool at the front of the stage as his home base for much of the performance.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 21 Mar. 2026
And Brown said his game has grown impressively in his two years at the Heights.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 21 Mar. 2026
And the three main villains are impressively restrained compared to the cartoonish mustache twirlers that have populated previous takes.
—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026
Duggan wrote the crust had an impressively crispy texture despite its lighter color.
—Mario Cortez, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2026
Perhaps most impressively, after five-plus Outside editors’ kids have worn it as babies, camping, climbing, hiking, and skiing, there’s not a hole to be found in this midlayer.
—The Editors, Outside, 18 Mar. 2026
Gwyneth Paltrow impressively proved that minimalism is anything but boring on the Oscars 2026 red carpet.
—Madeline Dangmann, Glamour, 16 Mar. 2026
Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
Even the wood of the barrels, the surrounding lime aided its conservation impressively.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 Mar. 2026
The rapper, however, was impressively mobile and committed throughout the show despite his injury, which required him to wear an ankle boot and use a stool at the front of the stage as his home base for much of the performance.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 21 Mar. 2026
And Brown said his game has grown impressively in his two years at the Heights.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 21 Mar. 2026
And the three main villains are impressively restrained compared to the cartoonish mustache twirlers that have populated previous takes.
—Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026
Duggan wrote the crust had an impressively crispy texture despite its lighter color.
—Mario Cortez, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2026
Perhaps most impressively, after five-plus Outside editors’ kids have worn it as babies, camping, climbing, hiking, and skiing, there’s not a hole to be found in this midlayer.
—The Editors, Outside, 18 Mar. 2026
Gwyneth Paltrow impressively proved that minimalism is anything but boring on the Oscars 2026 red carpet.
—Madeline Dangmann, Glamour, 16 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impressively
Adverb
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Santa Cruz, a hunk of volcanic rock wedged between the blues of sky and ocean and inhabited by over a thousand scrappy species of creatures and plants, feels magnificently wild.—
Betsy Andrews,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Mar. 2026
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Gill is a storm of rage, magnificently suppressing George’s base instincts for the sake of decorum.—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
3 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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And here is a tip — a teaspoon of honey enhances the flavors splendidly.—
Ed Silverman,
STAT,
24 Mar. 2026
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The ensemble works splendidly together.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
10 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Grasslands, especially those in humid areas with good soil, provision their local food webs as richly as do forests.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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The rhythm created by the voice and the instruments is richly unsettling.—
Stephen Kearse,
Pitchfork,
24 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Those mounds stood about six feet high while Litchfield’s church-like cathedral termite mounds imposingly reached up to 26 feet.—
Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
26 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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If so, what is such a large and extravagantly funded force meant to do?—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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Will Vicari’s wig and makeup design complete the extravagantly artificial fashion of the period.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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To be in a place built—so very expensively—on fossil fuels, listening to endless green talk from an industry profiting off planetary destruction, is far more discombobulating than the astonishing shopping options.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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The soundtrack boasts expensively familiar crowd-pleasers by the likes of Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie and Billy Joel.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The camera lingers, luxuriously, on the dilapidated roadside.—
Elena Clavarino,
Air Mail,
14 Mar. 2026
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InStyle editors found and shared all the perfumes reportedly in Taylor Swift's rotation, from floral favorites to luxuriously warm and woody musks.—
Rebecca Norris,
InStyle,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Impressively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impressively. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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