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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
Engage your lower abs, draw your kneecaps toward your thighs, and inwardly rotate your thighs.
—Kate Pitts, Outside, 30 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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Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Engage your lower abs, draw your kneecaps toward your thighs, and inwardly rotate your thighs.
—Kate Pitts, Outside, 30 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
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Caleb Elliott, 26, is a former Celina ISD middle school football coach and substitute teacher who is facing multiple state and federal charges tied to secretly recording boys in a Moore Middle School locker room.—
Doug Myers,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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At Free Eden, Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the boutique’s basement after hours with Cherry and Fig.—
Kennedy French,
Variety,
27 Mar. 2026
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Through archival research, difficult conversations with family, and interviews with numerous surviving people who knew his father (some quite intimately), Junod learns that Lou had many extramarital affairs, including several that stretched on for years.—
Jack Denton,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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Part of the magic was his towering will to prove wrong all who doubted, which is pretty much all of us, except some who knew him intimately.—
Dan Pompei,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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Could litigation over 'The Bachelorette' be resolved privately?—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
21 Mar. 2026
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Trump reportedly told her privately not to escalate the ensuing diplomatic spat with Beijing.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
19 Mar. 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 Mar. 2026.
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