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Recent Examples of inwardly
Engage your lower abs, draw your kneecaps toward your thighs, and inwardly rotate your thighs.
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Kate Pitts, Outside, 30 Sep. 2025
In contrast, participants from the control walk group tended to be more inwardly focused.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 5 Sep. 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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Kate Pitts, Outside, 30 Sep. 2025
In contrast, participants from the control walk group tended to be more inwardly focused.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 5 Sep. 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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The lesson isn't that failure should be celebrated or that every flop is secretly brilliant.—
Tim Bajarin,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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In 2017, Mehlhorn secretly helped fund a deceptive social-media botnet campaign, which mimicked foreign-interference tactics and was designed to hurt a Republican Senate candidate.—
Michael Scherer,
The Atlantic,
22 Jan. 2026
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The gentle paradox here, one Wallace was intimately in touch with, is that reading fiction is a form of self-gratification, done alone, that allows a person to feel unalone.—
Hermione Hoby,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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The protesters sought to keep up the pressure to prevent people intimately involved in Rosselló’s administration from succeeding him.—
Julyssa Lopez,
Rolling Stone,
26 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Uhlaender has even said that some Canadian athletes are privately supporting her in this battle.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Their bold bid to subpoena Wiles also parallels their effort to seek similar testimony from Rubio, who as Florida’s senator privately met with Rivera, Nuhfer and Gorrin at a hotel in Washington in 2017.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2026
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The first and rarest category involved sotto voce confessions of personal tree-felling or maiming episodes.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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Like the man himself, the house speaks of quality sotto voce.—
Rachel Davies,
Architectural Digest,
16 Dec. 2025
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“Inwardly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inwardly. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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