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Recent Examples of magnificently
This puts the show in an incredible place—and, hopefully, tees up Season 2 magnificently.
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Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
21 June 2026
The game had see-sawed magnificently and the more functional Italians went on to match Brazil’s then-record three World Cup wins by beating Poland in the semi-finals and West Germany in the final, with Rossi scoring three more times to pick up the Golden Boot.
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Will Jeanes,
New York Times,
20 June 2026
But, typical of Hockney portraiture, the resulting drawings magnificently captured every crag in Auden’s impossibly craggy face.
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Mark Rozzo,
Vanity Fair,
12 June 2026
Li is magnificently photographed throughout and is as alluring as the part demands, but Cat has no evident personality — nor does Flint, leaving Huston playing emotionally tortured but with no meaningful underpinnings.
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Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
Santa Cruz, a hunk of volcanic rock wedged between the blues of sky and ocean and inhabited by over a thousand scrappy species of creatures and plants, feels magnificently wild.
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Betsy Andrews,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Mar. 2026
Gill is a storm of rage, magnificently suppressing George’s base instincts for the sake of decorum.
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David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
3 Mar. 2026
Hedda’s romantic picture — of Lovborg dying magnificently, with Dionysian vine leaves in his hairs, from a bullet of one of her own guns — smacks of the same literary cliches that has Emma fantasizing about a torchlight wedding at midnight.
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Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
The film is incredibly, even magnificently, stylish, but beyond its initial presentation, there just isn’t very much guiding the story in any novel or exciting ways — beyond, perhaps, thematic echoes of how the less prim-and-proper tech bros of today might be pulling a fast one too.
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Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2026
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
21 June 2026
The game had see-sawed magnificently and the more functional Italians went on to match Brazil’s then-record three World Cup wins by beating Poland in the semi-finals and West Germany in the final, with Rossi scoring three more times to pick up the Golden Boot.
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Will Jeanes,
New York Times,
20 June 2026
But, typical of Hockney portraiture, the resulting drawings magnificently captured every crag in Auden’s impossibly craggy face.
—
Mark Rozzo,
Vanity Fair,
12 June 2026
Li is magnificently photographed throughout and is as alluring as the part demands, but Cat has no evident personality — nor does Flint, leaving Huston playing emotionally tortured but with no meaningful underpinnings.
—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
Santa Cruz, a hunk of volcanic rock wedged between the blues of sky and ocean and inhabited by over a thousand scrappy species of creatures and plants, feels magnificently wild.
—
Betsy Andrews,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Mar. 2026
Gill is a storm of rage, magnificently suppressing George’s base instincts for the sake of decorum.
—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
3 Mar. 2026
Hedda’s romantic picture — of Lovborg dying magnificently, with Dionysian vine leaves in his hairs, from a bullet of one of her own guns — smacks of the same literary cliches that has Emma fantasizing about a torchlight wedding at midnight.
—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
The film is incredibly, even magnificently, stylish, but beyond its initial presentation, there just isn’t very much guiding the story in any novel or exciting ways — beyond, perhaps, thematic echoes of how the less prim-and-proper tech bros of today might be pulling a fast one too.
—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for magnificently
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New acts continue to be announced, but the season impressively eclectic lineup now features some two-dozen dates.
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Models, Dines notes, pursue goals impressively — but a human has to originate the goal.
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Here in the famous Festival Theatre, the sprite Ariel, played in splendidly sprightly fashion by Marissa Orjalo, opens up the top of a piano, a piece of island flotsam and Prospero, in the form of the veteran actor Geraint Wyn Davies, shoves his coat inside, throws up his hands and closes the lid.
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And here is a helpful tip — a teaspoon of honey enhances the flavors splendidly.
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As businesses in Hollywood and other sectors face more consolidation and competition, executives are getting richly compensated more for their role in leading companies through challenging times.
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The result is 260 pages of richly-detailed, expressive drawings, mostly in regimented 12-panel grids that mirror the grinding rhythms of daily life in rural, 19th century America.
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As extravagantly decorated as the guest rooms, Azure’s blue and white interiors would be a great date-night choice—a combo of watching the sun sink below the horizon, excellent cuisine and fabulous wines (try something from the owners’ South African estate, Bouchard Finlayson).
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In July 2024, Rinderknecht demanded the chatbot generate an image that showed wealthy elites dining extravagantly on one side of a wall while the world burned beyond the barricade.
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Those mounds stood about six feet high while Litchfield’s church-like cathedral termite mounds imposingly reached up to 26 feet.
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Your composition captures flowers, chamoy and other candies and fruit sumptuously arranged in and around a ceramic jar from LACMA’s permanent collection.
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The kind of experience these companies curate manages to be sumptuously luxe and transformatively meaningful—and offers plenty of swashbuckling tales to tell.
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The palate is smooth and approachable, with sweet grain and buttery biscuit notes leading into a luxuriously soft, elegant finish.
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Its luxuriously soft drop-waist style and stretchy strapless top leave room for endless wear, whether as a maxi dress or folded down to be a maxi skirt.
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Training works best when the system helps people minimize risks and recover safely, not fail expensively.
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But the latter can also make life expensively miserable for the former.
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“Magnificently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/magnificently. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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