as in honorably
in a manner befitting a person of the highest character and ideals
magnanimously decided to forgive her former classmates, who had treated her so badly
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Recent Examples of magnanimously
Mamdani magnanimously noted the president’s high support in 2024 for a Republican in New York.
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Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
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House Bill 1037 would waive the fee for a fishing license for active-duty military members and for military veterans who were honorably discharged.—
Bart Pfankuch,
South Dakota News Watch,
12 Jan. 2026
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Her silence tacitly endorses the president’s pardons of financial criminals the Justice Department had worked honorably to convict.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Jan. 2026
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The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and earned McConaughey strong reviews for his portrayal of a school bus driver who heroically saved a group of children during the 2018 fires in Paradise, CA.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
18 Dec. 2025
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Efforts to calm tensions have been buoyed by the fact that the man who heroically tackled Akram, fruit shop owner Ahmed al-Ahmed, is himself a Muslim father of two.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
15 Dec. 2025
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“Magnanimously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/magnanimously. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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