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Adverb
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Their survival to this day tells us Mars' mantle has evolved sluggishly over billions of years.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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The shallow freshwater coursed lazily among the sawgrass, the water stretching from the Atlantic Coastal Ridge to the east to the highlands of what is now part of the Big Cypress National Preserve to the west.—
Amy Green,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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The account regularly shares videos of the siblings doing everything together, from snoozing lazily or causing the typical golden retriever mischief.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Nov. 2025
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The result is a work that is at once boundless in scope and dully inert.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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While Chanel, which last season shut out guests who arrived a couple of minutes late, started its show — gasp — tardily.—
THOMAS ADAMSON,
ajc,
7 Mar. 2023
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Albeit tardily, it has been punished.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
20 June 2020
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But Karl-Anthony Towns and OG Anunoby mustered just two shot attempts apiece, spending their time watching idly as the Knicks offense incessantly grinds into a standstill.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
6 Jan. 2026
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The boat bobbed idly, water lapping against it.—
Kelso Harper,
Scientific American,
16 Dec. 2025
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“Inanimately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inanimately. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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