NOISELESSLY Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

noiselessly

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as in quietly

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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. — 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

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Saudi Arabia has been quietly building an electric vehicle brand for the last four years, and it's just revealed the first cars from its portfolio.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Sep. 2026
And yet liminality is the space where real healing and most of life happens—where, quietly and unexpectedly, the real work and magic unfold.

— Stefanie Benjamin, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2026

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Three hours after Thomas Jefferson died at his Monticello home on July 4, 1826, his personal secretary, Nicholas Trist, snipped a lock of the Founder’s gray hair, still faintly reddish blond.

— Andrew Lawler, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026
The film is Bullock’s first in four years, and critics are ever-so-faintly praising her return to the big screen.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2026

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