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Recent Examples of passingly
The album only passingly cares about the signature dance-pop gunk of its 2010s and ’20s peers and forebears and doesn’t (like songs by Gomez, Addison Rae, and others) spend much time exploring Lana Del Rey as a subgenre.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for passingly
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Support journalism that digs deeper into topics that matter most to Arkansans.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Oct. 2025
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Leaper Williams, a Lawrence High graduate who started working at KU at 16, emerged as one of KU football’s most recognizable employees through the years, overcoming a development impairment due to anoxia, a lack of oxygen to the brain, at birth.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
8 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Some genres may be extremely violent and gory, so parents may want to consider supervising their children's viewing of films or avoid them altogether.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
4 Oct. 2025
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Grain bins and silos can be extremely deadly if people get trapped inside.—
Kelli Arseneau,
jsonline.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Former Trustee Edward Lopez remembered Pendleton as polished, exceedingly smart and always thoughtful of other people’s points of view.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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As a speaker and an interviewer, Klein is exceedingly intelligent, fluid, and, if not conflict-averse, exactly, then polite.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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Simple, beautiful, functional—this is a cocktail bar set that takes its job seriously if not without a little whimsy.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
7 Oct. 2025
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Amazon Big Deal Days dropped some seriously great sales on everything from creative building sets like Magna-Tiles and Lego to favorites like Barbie and American Girl dolls.—
Nora Colomer
may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom.,
FOXNews.com,
7 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Not terribly long ago, Spanish restaurants were abundant in this part of Manhattan, but a good number have died off in recent years.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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Immediate forgiveness – a message of letting go of the anger that comes with being so terribly wronged – has a familiar sound to those who have been following a frighteningly violent news cycle.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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Monster has debuted into this very fraught political moment where, despite no evidence showing a link between violence and transness, right-wingers have gone to great pains to paint almost every mass shooter who makes front page news as trans in hopes of stripping trans people of their rights.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
7 Oct. 2025
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In early 2024, support for Israel’s war was very high, if lower among Democrats.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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Shaw said better compensation could help reduce turnover further, but districts may struggle to offer raises due to budget constraints.—
Kayla Huynh,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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Officers spoke to the people who brought the man to the emergency room, according to law enforcement officials, who didn’t elaborate further.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Passingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/passingly. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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