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Recent Examples of inwardly
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.
—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
Not one to get sentimental, Koda seems to beam inwardly.
—Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 July 2016
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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.
—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
Not one to get sentimental, Koda seems to beam inwardly.
—Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 July 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inwardly
Adverb
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The suit alleges that members sidestepped state transparency laws by secretly touring a Dallas data center just days before a key vote in Granbury.—
Matthew Davisson,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Police reports from Glynn County, Georgia, said the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center student, Joel Lara Canvasser, secretly filmed his suitemate's every move with a spy camera hidden in a phone charger.—
Sasha Pezenik,
ABC News,
10 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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That’s a particular kind of burden Black women know intimately.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
8 Apr. 2026
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Intuitive Machines’ chief integration officer is intimately familiar with the need for bandwidth in space.—
Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
6 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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There are about 4,700 spaces, 87% of them privately owned, Weber said.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2026
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But, for all the sensationalism that has attended the reporting of this story, nothing that Orbán said privately deviated from his public positions.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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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 18 Apr. 2026.
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