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Recent Examples of noiselessly
Small branches can be clipped quickly and almost noiselessly and fashioned into an effective blind in only a few minutes.
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Bruce Brady, Outdoor Life, 8 Apr. 2026
On a brilliant midsummer morning, my wife and I stepped into a black Zodiac raft and drifted noiselessly among icebergs five stories high, their emerald and aquamarine walls gleaming above sapphire waters.
—Pico Iyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2025
Bruce Brady, Outdoor Life, 8 Apr. 2026
On a brilliant midsummer morning, my wife and I stepped into a black Zodiac raft and drifted noiselessly among icebergs five stories high, their emerald and aquamarine walls gleaming above sapphire waters.
—Pico Iyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for noiselessly
Adverb
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Suárez only faced one more batter in the first, but Ramón Urías didn’t go quietly.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
12 Apr. 2026
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The town of Red Ash was abandoned in the 1950s, and today, the island lies quietly as a part of West Virginia’s history, with just a handful of headstones remaining.—
Jordan Charbonneau,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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This was a black one with blotches faintly outlined in pale yellow, a beautiful but deadly looking animal.—
Dr. C. E. Kuschel,
Outdoor Life,
9 Apr. 2026
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The architecture is predominantly grand Victorian villas in candy-box lilacs and creams, their aged wooden panels faintly reminiscent of a Norwegian coastal town.—
Alexandra Genova,
TheWeek,
7 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Heathcliff’s racial ambiguity — so central to the novel’s violence and otherness — is feebly erased.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
11 Feb. 2026
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One man aboard the boat knew how to navigate the mangroves and sandbars of the keys, and with the late summer sun beating down on the rafters, the boat pushed out feebly into the open ocean.—
Miriam Pensack,
The Dial,
30 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Pisces February 19 – March 20 Friendships brighten as words land softly.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Apr. 2026
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This is the perfect shoe for people who prefer their clothes to speak softly but say a lot.—
Alex Sales,
Glamour,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Noiselessly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noiselessly. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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