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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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National Public Radio recently reported that the DOE secretly drafted new rules slashing environmental and security requirements for next-generation experimental nuclear reactors.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
6 Mar. 2026
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Obama also secretly arranged for a plane to deliver $400 million in cash to Iran, which the country promptly used to fund terror activities throughout the region.—
Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Hong renders these universal conflicts locally specific and intimately personal.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Feb. 2026
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Mothers are still overwhelmingly the primary caregivers in American families, and tend to be more sensitive to the challenges of child-rearing than older men, who may have been less intimately involved in its daily struggles.—
Sonja Sharp,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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And Paton’s own friends worried privately for him.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
28 Feb. 2026
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Paramount executives have privately talked about the prospect of combining its CBS News unit with CNN.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
27 Feb. 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 7 Mar. 2026.
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