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Recent Examples of ornately
It is made entirely from gold sheets and ornately decorated with protective symbols.
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Ryan Brennan
april 10, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026
Her custom jade green bustier gown came with a plunging sweetheart neckline and peplum waist, ornately embellished in stone and crystal embroidery.
—Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 16 Mar. 2026
Inside, the ornately elegant venue may have seemed like an unlikely setting for Junior H’s melancholy corridos tumbados.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2026
Just west of Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, this spacious and ornately decorated Mediterranean restaurant is hosting its annual Ramadan iftar buffet, featuring appetizers, salads, fresh fruit, soups, entrees and desserts.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 24 Feb. 2026
In 1819, a special acoustic chair was designed for the king of Portugal, featuring arms ornately carved to look like open lion mouths, which helped transmit sound to the king’s ear via speaking tubes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2026
The movie is an empty shell ornately decorated with eyecatching camera angles, an acidulously sun-bright palette, and whimsical dialogue.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
Gerrie Bonarrigo was perhaps the most ornately dressed of the roughly 100 people here, capped with a foam Statue of Liberty crown.
—Kaitlin Lange, IndyStar, 8 Aug. 2025
These are all weapons specifically designed to annihilate outsiders trying to get inside the cities, weapons meant to cause the most pain for the amusement of the insiders (think a napalm bomb ornately decorated in the shape of a cone, which liquifies outsiders in seconds).
—Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
Ryan Brennan
april 10, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026
Her custom jade green bustier gown came with a plunging sweetheart neckline and peplum waist, ornately embellished in stone and crystal embroidery.
—Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 16 Mar. 2026
Inside, the ornately elegant venue may have seemed like an unlikely setting for Junior H’s melancholy corridos tumbados.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2026
Just west of Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, this spacious and ornately decorated Mediterranean restaurant is hosting its annual Ramadan iftar buffet, featuring appetizers, salads, fresh fruit, soups, entrees and desserts.
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 24 Feb. 2026
In 1819, a special acoustic chair was designed for the king of Portugal, featuring arms ornately carved to look like open lion mouths, which helped transmit sound to the king’s ear via speaking tubes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2026
The movie is an empty shell ornately decorated with eyecatching camera angles, an acidulously sun-bright palette, and whimsical dialogue.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
Gerrie Bonarrigo was perhaps the most ornately dressed of the roughly 100 people here, capped with a foam Statue of Liberty crown.
—Kaitlin Lange, IndyStar, 8 Aug. 2025
These are all weapons specifically designed to annihilate outsiders trying to get inside the cities, weapons meant to cause the most pain for the amusement of the insiders (think a napalm bomb ornately decorated in the shape of a cone, which liquifies outsiders in seconds).
—Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ornately
Adverb
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But where the exhibitions on Cribs were charmingly, sometimes garishly, idiosyncratic, today’s represent a subtler and often more generic version of taste.—
Kim Hew-Low,
The Atlantic,
10 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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On our first morning, Sara and I woke to one of the roughly 300 days of sun that Taos receives each year—gaudily beautiful weather for the end of February.—
Michael Paterniti,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Trained on such a corpus, an AI helper could speak your company’s language fluently, and reveal richly profitable connections in your files.—
Erik German,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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The role of specific fungi within each group is richly varied.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
6 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Bryan Fuller’s expressionistic procedural is ostentatiously gruesome, yes, but the increasingly disturbing interplay between Will and Hannibal — cat and mouse, will-they/won’t they — is a full course meal on its own.—
Matt Cabral,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Apr. 2026
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In her closet were seven Ungaros, three Rykiels, a Kamali bathing suit and a Kamali sleeping-bag coat, five Kenzo dresses, two pieces from the Ballets Russes collection of Saint Laurent—all of which were trades or payments in kind, none of them mothballed, but instead worn ostentatiously and often.—
Han Ong,
New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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The staging of their wedding on Monday is immediately juxtaposed with the deaths of Mercutio (played flamboyantly, and with a penchant for mooning, by Kasper Hilton-Hille) and Tybalt (Aruna Jalloh).—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
1 Apr. 2026
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Across medieval Europe, aristocrats repeatedly set off fashion fads and scandals by wearing poulaines, shoes whose flamboyantly elongated pointed toes could stretch far beyond the natural length of their feet.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
13 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Channeling ’90s slowcore and post-rock into gorgeously brooding odes to dejection, the Chicago quartet’s debut is downer music at its most alluring.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
13 Apr. 2026
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Each is gorgeously designed to reflect a distinct personality and suit a particular kind of magic.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Proponents say these bills are a response to an industry that has been strikingly fast-moving and secretive, providing little opportunity for substantive public input.—
Ella Nilsen,
CNN Money,
12 Apr. 2026
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Sandel frames the lesson in strikingly personal terms.—
Ryan Brennan
April 10,
Kansas City Star,
10 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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The characters are colorfully dressed but also comfortably.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
9 Apr. 2026
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Sean McGinley’s sound design ties it all together with atmospheric cues that bridge the eras as do Jamie Godwin’s colorfully gorgeous projection designs.—
Michelle F. Solomon,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Ornately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ornately. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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