passingly

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for passingly
Adverb
  • What stands out most about the LX Hybrid is how luxurious its cabin is for such a capable SUV.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
  • With Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa and Ben Griffin seemingly locks to make the team, there are 3 spots at most up for grabs.
    Mike Fore, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Nevertheless, a five-time winner losing the season-long race to an opponent who hasn't won a single event is something extremely improbable to see on any other major golf tour.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Musiala can be highly effective against low blocks, making his absence extremely unhelpful, regardless of Bayern’s many advantages.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Over the past year-plus, there have been scores of exceedingly polite and earnestly optimistic emails exchanged with officials in Thai consulates and embassies, U.S. embassies, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 22 Aug. 2025
  • This is a stark contrast to the exceedingly volatile and lower-margin characteristics of cryptocurrency mining, where miner rewards were reduced in April 2024.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • These irresponsible journalists should try such worthwhile exercises rather than squander their talents on Trump hatred and national division.
    Deroy Murdock, National Review, 20 Mar. 2020
  • To support such resource-intensive work, in 2003 Banerjee, Duflo, and a colleague founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a network of nearly 200 researchers performing such randomized controlled experiments in economics.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 14 Oct. 2019
Adverb
  • Track retention, engagement and client satisfaction as seriously as financial KPIs.
    Peter Ross, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Leicester City had to fight seriously hard to tie him to a pro contract.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • But something went terribly wrong when, about nine years ago, David was out on a mission ordered by Juno: and he and his team were ambushed.
    Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2025
  • But dashing from one building to another for meetings wasn’t a terribly efficient way of working.
    Dana Thomas, Architectural Digest, 18 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Indeed, the argument is often made by industry that plastics can sequester carbon from fossil fuels for the very long term, unless they are burned.
    Saleem H. Ali, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Her Ancestry matches had uncovered that her biological father was very likely an African American man.
    Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • However, physical problems have prevented him from being called up by Alonso regularly so far, and Pitarch has taken advantage of that wonderfully.
    Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • So far this year, 177 people have been shot in the city.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Passingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/passingly. Accessed 30 Aug. 2025.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!