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Recent Examples of offhandedly
America is offhandedly disregarding science.
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 May 2026
Sometimes, Academy Award-winning actress Sandra Bullock will offhandedly give you career advice.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2025
The tragedy side of things is addressed rather offhandedly — occasionally the movie will remember the boggling grief and betrayal at its center, only to shrug it off again just as quickly.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 May 2026
Sometimes, Academy Award-winning actress Sandra Bullock will offhandedly give you career advice.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2025
The tragedy side of things is addressed rather offhandedly — occasionally the movie will remember the boggling grief and betrayal at its center, only to shrug it off again just as quickly.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for offhandedly
Adverb
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After squeezing the game’s final out, first baseman Leyton MacPherson casually flipped the ball in the air, joined her teammate in a sprint toward Spangler, and gloves began flying.—
Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 May 2026
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Soon there’s a birthday party, Valentine’s Day, a brit bat (aka a baby-naming ceremony), Purim (a celebration of Jewish deliverance casually referred to as Jewish Halloween), and a game night at a beer garden.—
Hugh Hart,
IndieWire,
23 May 2026
Adverb
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Some are dumped carelessly back into local waters.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
19 May 2026
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Here Athane and Nguyen rather carelessly traffic in AIDS allegory, which clangs badly against the movie’s otherwise silly, lighthearted demeanor.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
Adverb
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The people whose few belongings were being arbitrarily picked up and thrown by a crane into the trash were not harassing staff.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
24 May 2026
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According to Mavares, investigators then arbitrarily selected which officers would remain detained.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
11 May 2026
Adverb
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If policies are vague, documentation is thin or authority is informally exercised, questions will follow.—
William Phillips,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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Initially, Lyndes informally suggested the renovation project during a city budget planning session in early April.—
Barbara Henry,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 May 2026
Adverb
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No landlord would allow an occupant to change his property without approval, let alone whimsically destroy a third of it.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Apr. 2026
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Something this rare — this pink, this whimsically named — had been thriving just steps away from a local community, entirely unrecognized until the survey team went out to look.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Mara, Lisa and Astrid say bizarre and unsettling things, their cruelty and spite sometimes offhand, sometimes calculated.—
Sheri Linden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Apr. 2022
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The Trolley Problem entails having to make difficult choices, contextually herein in the nature of driving decisions, and is often offhand dismissed by some as a misleading folly in the self-driving realm.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
1 Nov. 2021
Adverb
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Once outside, the suspect fired indiscriminately, hitting other houses and possibly a vehicle in the immediate area, Sutter said.—
Nathaniel Percy,
Oc Register,
20 May 2026
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Innate defenses include everything from physical barriers—skin, mucous, gastric acid—to immune cells that can indiscriminately gobble invaders, as well as chemical signals that can swiftly ignite generic inflammation.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
15 May 2026
Adverb
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Permits that are granted and withdrawn capriciously, tax credits that come and go, technologies that fall in or out of favor in successive administrations, and endless legal battles all amount to dangerous barriers to investment.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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That standard would uphold the NCAA’s interpretation of the waiver rule so long as the NCAA didn’t act arbitrarily or capriciously, either of which is difficult to show.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Offhandedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offhandedly. Accessed 27 May. 2026.
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