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Recent Examples of ornately
At other times, the cage might be ornately gilded.
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Big Think, 6 May 2026
Elaborate stages are built for the camera close-ups as much as the crowd, often featuring prefab cinematic interludes, ornately detailed costumes, titillating dance moves and surreal, maximalist graphics.
—Andrea Domanick, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
It is made entirely from gold sheets and ornately decorated with protective symbols.
—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
Big Think, 6 May 2026
Elaborate stages are built for the camera close-ups as much as the crowd, often featuring prefab cinematic interludes, ornately detailed costumes, titillating dance moves and surreal, maximalist graphics.
—Andrea Domanick, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
It is made entirely from gold sheets and ornately decorated with protective symbols.
—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
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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How does someone as non-linear in thought and deed create music so richly within the format of popular song and its structure?—
A.D. Amorosi,
SPIN,
4 May 2026
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But BandWith Chicago’s new home in East Garfield Park displays a more contemporary approach to minimalism, one that richly layers old and new elements in a compelling solution that is modest and straightforward while equally elegant and nuanced.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
3 May 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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Egerton, by contrast, gets to grandstand a bit more flamboyantly.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
23 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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They at first preferred buncheong, a rustic style of stoneware decorated with white slip, gorgeously epitomized by a late 15th-century bowl marked by wide sweeps of pale brushwork on its interior and exterior, nothing more.—
Lori Waxman,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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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
Adverb
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The language and targets have shifted over time, but the underlying logic of reproductive governance has remained strikingly consistent.—
Sonya Borrero,
STAT,
1 May 2026
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The surface is strikingly similar to paper, but there’s no need for actual paper, folder or tags.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Lifetime Achievement Award-winner Poltz was colorfully introduced by his longtime musician friend, former San Diego Padres second baseman and third base coach Tim Flannery.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 May 2026
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The characters are colorfully dressed but also comfortably.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Ornately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ornately. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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