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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.
—
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
Adverb
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Its core strengths are its quick acceleration, its long-range estimates, and its impressively fast charging times.
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After menu diving to taste, visiting friends who have a 65-inch TV mounted above the mantel in their home were quick to remark how impressively TV-like the image was – just bigger.
Adverb
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And here is a helpful tip — a teaspoon of honey enhances the flavors splendidly.
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After all, Jackson finished the 2025 season splendidly.
Adverb
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The bathhouse was richly decorated.
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Then, each June, on the Feast of Corpus Christi, the town’s traditional dresses—richly decorated, pleated, and baroque in their ornamentation—are brought back into the light.
Adverb
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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.
Adverb
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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.
Adverb
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Something about the floral blue pattern on this dress feels luxuriously elegant.
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Now, the Nuggets have the option to spend luxuriously next season — a choice that would’ve been available to them regardless — or avoid the luxury tax again and save millions of dollars.
Adverb
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General Motors Anderson sees design and human ingenuity falling into three main epochs, beginning with thousands of years of empirical design that saw creators largely mimicking nature, building and testing models, and advancing from there—slowly, expensively, and narrowly focused.
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Creditors wanted the money to be restored as expensively as possible.
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“Magnificently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/magnificently. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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