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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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In these quietly stunning essays, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, the daughter of an Army veteran and a schoolteacher, looks back on her upbringing in Buckhannon, West Virginia.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Wealth, meanwhile, has quietly redefined itself upward.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
3 May 2026
Adverb
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Instead, thanks to the sugar, eggs, and butter in the mix, vinegar pie is sweet, silky, subtly fruity, and faintly tangy; on the tartness level akin to cheesecake.—
Karla Walsh,
Southern Living,
29 Apr. 2026
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Gasly seems faintly bewildered by the designation.—
Maxwell Adler,
Vanity Fair,
27 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Infantino, as Henry Bushnell writes, talked rather feebly about working together and, randomly, said an upcoming under-15 tournament for all member associations was something to encourage co-operation.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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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
Adverb
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Even with its unnecessary detours, Singing reaches this wild reverie in the end—a voice reclaimed to report, softly, from the fathomless depths of the human experience.—
Linnie Greene,
Pitchfork,
29 Apr. 2026
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Sylvia, my copilot, snores softly.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Noiselessly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noiselessly. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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