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Recent Examples of incredulously
Jones asked his players incredulously.
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Jane Tyska,
Mercury News,
15 Mar. 2026
Kizzi adds to his act by pretending to be a devoted fan while V looks on incredulously.
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Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
13 Jan. 2026
Bea incredulously finds out that Christy has been involved in a treasure hunt for years now, believing that there is a million dollars hidden somewhere in the state, planning and plotting her methods of finding it, and Christy is finally setting her plan in motion.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
Goldsman asked incredulously, questioning the limits of the university’s authority over athletes.
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Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
8 Dec. 2025
Referring to news coverage of Tesla’s $1 trillion package for Elon Musk, Abramovic cursed at the thought incredulously.
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Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
10 Nov. 2025
Sanders interjected incredulously during a 2015 interview with the liberal columnist Ezra Klein.
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W. James Antle Iii,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Oct. 2025
Turner incredulously fired back.
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Dónal Gill,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
Fans chanted for Bayley as Lyra stared at her incredulously.
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Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Jane Tyska,
Mercury News,
15 Mar. 2026
Kizzi adds to his act by pretending to be a devoted fan while V looks on incredulously.
—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
13 Jan. 2026
Bea incredulously finds out that Christy has been involved in a treasure hunt for years now, believing that there is a million dollars hidden somewhere in the state, planning and plotting her methods of finding it, and Christy is finally setting her plan in motion.
—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
Goldsman asked incredulously, questioning the limits of the university’s authority over athletes.
—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
8 Dec. 2025
Referring to news coverage of Tesla’s $1 trillion package for Elon Musk, Abramovic cursed at the thought incredulously.
—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
10 Nov. 2025
Sanders interjected incredulously during a 2015 interview with the liberal columnist Ezra Klein.
—
W. James Antle Iii,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Oct. 2025
Turner incredulously fired back.
—
Dónal Gill,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
Fans chanted for Bayley as Lyra stared at her incredulously.
—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incredulously
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From lambs with quizzically cocked eyebrows, to lambs whose wooly coats are made of flower petals, to lambs that simply defy description.
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Lines of hundreds of guests snaked around the inside of the department store (which takes up an entire city block in Manhattan), with onlookers snapping photos quizzically.
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Espinoza responded, holding up his hands questioningly.
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Bundhorol motioned to the direction of camp questioningly, then in the opposite direction, out into the empty grass.
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The many attending assistants around her eventually disperse — a little hesitantly because Sam is in the middle of preparing a new show — and the two withdraw to Sam’s cavernous studio.
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Only the bravest walked hesitantly toward the well.
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But in this case, the story is very doubtfully true.
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Simone Kanter, the Goldman aide, deleted his fake ‘Boogie on, Brad’ clip of a suspiciously limber-looking Lander that was intended to spotlight the rival’s use of spliced footage from their debates in the NY-10 race to create social media attack ads.
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The girl from The Witch who gets on suspiciously well with an evil black goat.
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The threat to actually suspend State Farm’s license and its authority to write policies has been viewed skeptically by some, given its roughly 20% market share of the state’s home insurance market.
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If the federal government wants a role in election security again at some point, said Lux, the Florida voting official, they'll be invited back — skeptically.
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While peers have pushed the genre toward radio-ready house-pop or dubiously eccentric experiments, Pond remain tethered to the sound that produced their last true breakout.
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Rather, the idea that Nike—or any brand—might explicitly develop an advertisement for the purpose of online engagement, in an era where any engagement might be dubiously engineered, is what started to melt my brain.
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Candidates and their backers also typically knock on doors to get signatures, but that’s not an option this year as people look askance at strangers on their doorsteps.
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True, lots of good white progressives look askance at businessmen who amass vast fortunes.
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“Incredulously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incredulously. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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