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as in generously
in a generous manner
complained that the university spends lavishly on the football program but underfunds other sports
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as in expensively
in a luxurious manner
Hollywood celebrities are known for living lavishly
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Recent Examples of lavishly
In the following 25 years, the two lived lavishly and donated freely around their community.
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David Chiu, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
Meta has spent lavishly to form a Superintelligence Labs group that develops advanced AI models, and on Wednesday announced its new model called Muse Spark.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
This lavishly rich casserole gets scraped clean at every family supper, potluck, or holiday.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Apr. 2026
Allbirds spent lavishly on ad campaigns aimed at pushing new iterations of its signature wool shoes and touting sneakers made of materials like eucalyptus-tree-fiber pulp.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe sheathed the walls with it at his client’s Villa Tugendhat in Brno, now a UNESCO World Heritage site; in Paris, the interiors of the mid-19th-century Hôtel de la Païva are lavishly studded with yellow onyx.
—Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2026
Thomas Bryant, whom Atkinson lavishly praised as a backup big who always tries on defense, logged only 13 minutes.
—Joe Vardon, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Kennedy’s speech was heroic, lavishly bold, and audacious.
—David Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
That’s why this show, set on a yacht, sees four couples living lavishly topside — and the rest of the singles below deck, cleaning up after the others.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 19 Mar. 2026
David Chiu, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
Meta has spent lavishly to form a Superintelligence Labs group that develops advanced AI models, and on Wednesday announced its new model called Muse Spark.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
This lavishly rich casserole gets scraped clean at every family supper, potluck, or holiday.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Apr. 2026
Allbirds spent lavishly on ad campaigns aimed at pushing new iterations of its signature wool shoes and touting sneakers made of materials like eucalyptus-tree-fiber pulp.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe sheathed the walls with it at his client’s Villa Tugendhat in Brno, now a UNESCO World Heritage site; in Paris, the interiors of the mid-19th-century Hôtel de la Païva are lavishly studded with yellow onyx.
—Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2026
Thomas Bryant, whom Atkinson lavishly praised as a backup big who always tries on defense, logged only 13 minutes.
—Joe Vardon, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Kennedy’s speech was heroic, lavishly bold, and audacious.
—David Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
That’s why this show, set on a yacht, sees four couples living lavishly topside — and the rest of the singles below deck, cleaning up after the others.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 19 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lavishly
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Set on a bluff overlooking the Pacific, this sprawling 30-acre resort has 263 rooms with gorgeous oceanfront views and generously sized soaking tubs.—
Acacia Gabriel,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Apr. 2026
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Sýkora, a 21-year-old ball of hustle generously listed at 5-foot-11, earned his first call-up later that month and now has three goals and an assist in eight games.—
Peter Baugh,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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To be in a place built—so very expensively—on fossil fuels, listening to endless green talk from an industry profiting off planetary destruction, is far more discombobulating than the astonishing shopping options.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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The soundtrack boasts expensively familiar crowd-pleasers by the likes of Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie and Billy Joel.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Jan. 2026
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Berea College, in Kentucky, is probably the most well known of these institutions.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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Hot sleepers know the feeling of tossing, turning, and sweating through too-warm bedding especially well, but the proper seasonal bedding can eliminate this issue.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
17 Apr. 2026
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Wearing sweats outside the house is officially acceptable (at least to us) thanks to this lightly slouchy and luxuriously soft pair.—
Rachel Trujillo,
PEOPLE,
5 Apr. 2026
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The luxuriously plush microfiber hair towel wrap, with more than 25,000 positive reviews, is specially designed to gently and quickly dry hair, helping to prevent frizz and damage.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Operational decisions get kicked up to VPs who don’t have the bandwidth to make them thoughtfully.—
Kristien Turner,
Fortune,
12 Apr. 2026
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All 130 items are thoughtfully designed to fill every room in your home with whimsy.—
Izzy Baskette,
PEOPLE,
11 Apr. 2026
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Trained on such a corpus, an AI helper could speak your company’s language fluently, and reveal richly profitable connections in your files.—
Erik German,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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The role of specific fungi within each group is richly varied.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
6 Apr. 2026
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How can vocals be as bountifully impressive as Mars’ are here and still leave you thinking that there’s no lived experience in any of the songs?—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2026
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Some larvae settled down, plantlike, to build colonies of flower bud–like polyps, of which some went butterflying off while others stayed behind as bountifully budding polyps.—
Mandy-Suzanne Wong,
Longreads,
5 Feb. 2026
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If so, what is such a large and extravagantly funded force meant to do?—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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Will Vicari’s wig and makeup design complete the extravagantly artificial fashion of the period.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Lavishly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lavishly. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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