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Recent Examples of inwardly
Regina turns her disdain outwardly, planning her escape, while Birde directs hers inwardly, seeing no way out.
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Oline Cogdill,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2026
And so that was something that actually gave me a lot of inspiration for finding layers and inwardly.
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Senior Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Nov. 2025
According to Gilbertsen, brick walls are notorious for absorbing solar heat during the day and then releasing the heat inwardly after sunset.
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Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
30 Aug. 2025
Never a fan of this kind of rhetoric—with which she and the rest of the country had been bombarded for years—Michiko inwardly bristled at the anecdote before the running dialogue changed tack to rumors about the new‑type bomb the Americans had just dropped on Hiroshima.
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Literary Hub,
7 Aug. 2025
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Oline Cogdill,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2026
And so that was something that actually gave me a lot of inspiration for finding layers and inwardly.
—
Senior Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Nov. 2025
According to Gilbertsen, brick walls are notorious for absorbing solar heat during the day and then releasing the heat inwardly after sunset.
—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
30 Aug. 2025
Never a fan of this kind of rhetoric—with which she and the rest of the country had been bombarded for years—Michiko inwardly bristled at the anecdote before the running dialogue changed tack to rumors about the new‑type bomb the Americans had just dropped on Hiroshima.
—
Literary Hub,
7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inwardly
Adverb
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Sophie secretly reads her mother’s diary and invites three of her mother’s suitors from the 1970s to her wedding, signing her mother’s name.
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The complaint alleges a church volunteer secretly placed a recording device inside the restroom during Summer Jam, the church's three-night program for children entering grades 1 through 5.
Adverb
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New Yorkers are intimately aware of the city’s affordability crisis.
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To create her structures, Hadid surveyed the land, working to get to know the landscape of her subject intimately through analyze and mapping out the future project and its materials.
Adverb
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Vance, who privately voiced his concerns about conflict with Iran in the lead-up to the war, is pugnacious and transactional.
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The details remain murky, but the investment fund would be financed privately and not by US taxpayers, according to the administration.
Adverb
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This isn’t a grabby, attention seeker of a film, but a quiet, watchful sort of movie that whispers its secrets sotto voce.
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The first and rarest category involved sotto voce confessions of personal tree-felling or maiming episodes.
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“Inwardly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inwardly. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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