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
My For You page is a shrine to snatched young women magnanimously sharing their tips for taut faces.
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Georgia Casey, Allure, 6 Feb. 2026
Mamdani magnanimously noted the president’s high support in 2024 for a Republican in New York.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
Georgia Casey, Allure, 6 Feb. 2026
Mamdani magnanimously noted the president’s high support in 2024 for a Republican in New York.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for magnanimously
Adverb
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Used to be, when something went bad wrong in the military, folks up and down the chain-of-command would honorably resign, sometimes even to the uppermost of the civilian ranks.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Mar. 2026
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Jalloh was honorably discharged from the Virginia Army National Guard in 2015.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
13 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Delta Slim heroically sacrifices himself so the rest of the survivors can get away.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Mar. 2026
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Just weeks after heroically saving a neighbor’s choking 1-year-old girl, an NYPD officer was at it again, saving the life of a 2-year-old boy who had stopped breathing in his Bronx home.—
Barry Williams,
New York Daily News,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Magnanimously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/magnanimously. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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