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Adverb
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In an interview with the Financial Times published Monday, Langone decried Trump’s tariffs as too large, imposed too hastily, and based on an incoherent mathematical formula.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2025 -
The fresh graves of their dead wives and children are lined neatly in a row, the result of a strike hastily agreed to over text message thousands of miles away.—
Rozina Ali,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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Across Spain and Portugal, trains and traffic lights abruptly stopped working.—
Natasha Bernal,
Wired News,
28 Apr. 2025
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Organizers and artists are scrambling to find new venues after the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts abruptly canceled a week's worth of events celebrating LGBTQ+ rights tied to this summer's World Pride festival in Washington, D.C.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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In most cases, ICE never followed through with the deportations because the immigrants had lived in the U.S. long enough that their home countries no longer recognized them as citizens, or as is the case with Laos, the home country does not readily issue repatriation documents.—
Melissa Gomez,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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The Santa Clara Master Gardeners Spring Garden Fair is a terrific place to select plants not readily available elsewhere, selected for outstanding taste, beauty and performance in the local soil and climate.—
Debby Rice,
Mercury News,
22 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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The South, for its part, responded in kind: secession swiftly forged a fractured region into a reactive unity, bound by fear of emancipation and faith in a mythic agrarian freedom.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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This glow-inducing formula dries down swiftly without leaving a sticky or greasy film.—
Annie Blackman,
Allure,
20 Apr. 2025
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“Opportunely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opportunely. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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