passingly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for passingly
Adverb
  • The second most common was diazolidinyl urea, which was included in 17 of the 41 products, largely skincare-related.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 17 May 2025
  • Affordable Aspires With Metal Builds Finally, Acer announced its most affordable consumer laptops: the Aspire lineup.
    Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 16 May 2025
Adverb
  • No league in the United States is more popular than the National Football League, making the schedule release an extremely exciting day for the sports world.
    Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
  • Chicago was also extremely active in free agency, adding guards Joe Thuney and Jonah Jackson, and center Drew Dalman to an offensive line that allowed 68 sacks a year ago.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Adverb
  • Often male, the dandy is a person who is exceedingly careful and deliberate about their appearance.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 4 May 2025
  • Similarly, although the U.S. is not exceedingly violent or criminal compared with peer nations, its criminal violence is more deadly because these lethal tools are more frequently involved. 5.
    David Yamane, The Conversation, 1 May 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
  • Smith, who was seriously injured in the attack, testified for hours Monday about abuse and harassment at Brand’s hands.
    Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
  • Smith said that pain management was somewhat of an afterthought during his own recovery process but he’s been happy to see how professional sports is now taking the issue seriously.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 14 May 2025
Adverb
  • The Celtics are doing that and shooting terribly, following up a 25 percent 3-point shooting performance in Game 1 with a 25 percent performance in Game 2.
    Jared Weiss, New York Times, 8 May 2025
  • Listen to this article 2 min Boston Celtics legend Paul Pierce will be getting his steps in after his Game 2 Celtics-Knicks prediction ended terribly for him.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025
Adverb
  • And, because the cube is moving at nearly the speed of light, that position was very different indeed.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 14 May 2025
  • You’re Obsessed With Learning About The Business Compared to hobbies, which are usually for fun and leisure, business is a very serious undertaking.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Adverb
  • The stock is down 8% from the February high and flat so far in May.
    Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 15 May 2025
  • Qatari plane can fly farther In addition to being longer and a bit taller, the 747-B owned by Qatar also has a wider wing span: 224 feet, 5 inches, compared to Air Force One's 195, 8 inches.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 15 May 2025
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“Passingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/passingly. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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