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Recent Examples of peacefully
After receiving medication, the preschooler appeared to be sleeping peacefully on his mother's chest.
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Nicky Zizaza, CBS News, 8 June 2026
The lawyer indicated that people are exercising their right to express opinions and to protest peacefully, rights enshrined in the Cuban constitution.
—Sarah Moreno
june 5, Miami Herald, 6 June 2026
Although the march began peacefully, tensions escalated as clashes broke out between protesters and police.
—ABC News, 3 June 2026
The right to peacefully protest is protected, as is the right to exercise one’s religious beliefs.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 3 June 2026
But in the final scene, Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard) tells a story about how Eleven secretly faked her death and is living peacefully somewhere.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 2 June 2026
The suspect surrendered peacefully, police said.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 1 June 2026
At Elkhorn Ranch, the foundation of Roosevelt's cabin lies peacefully under tall cottonwoods.
—Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 1 June 2026
The final shot is of the two of them asleep in bed together, peacefully at rest.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 29 May 2026
Nicky Zizaza, CBS News, 8 June 2026
The lawyer indicated that people are exercising their right to express opinions and to protest peacefully, rights enshrined in the Cuban constitution.
—Sarah Moreno
june 5, Miami Herald, 6 June 2026
Although the march began peacefully, tensions escalated as clashes broke out between protesters and police.
—ABC News, 3 June 2026
The right to peacefully protest is protected, as is the right to exercise one’s religious beliefs.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 3 June 2026
But in the final scene, Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard) tells a story about how Eleven secretly faked her death and is living peacefully somewhere.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 2 June 2026
The suspect surrendered peacefully, police said.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 1 June 2026
At Elkhorn Ranch, the foundation of Roosevelt's cabin lies peacefully under tall cottonwoods.
—Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 1 June 2026
The final shot is of the two of them asleep in bed together, peacefully at rest.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 29 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peacefully
Adverb
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Name your value, then stand calmly by it.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
29 May 2026
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His sense of crafting anecdotes into top-tier material and knowing how to use his sweet-molasses pacing to calmly detonate a joke is damn near peerless.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2026
Adverb
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Perhaps, but Alonso’s attentive gaze reworks the meaning of excitement such that a banal exchange with the nearby farmhand, and a drive into the nearby village, provide minor thrills — that is, if you’re properly settled onto Alonso’s serenely sluggish wavelength.—
Beatrice Loayza,
Variety,
16 May 2026
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One of the spaces is serenely accented in all white and features rounded paneling that can open or close depending on the client’s preference for privacy.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
3 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Nature is no big deal in Cristian Mungiu‘s superb new drama of systemic order and individual disarray, which takes in the sprawling waters and monochrome mountainscapes of the region with a placidly appreciative eye.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
18 May 2026
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That sequence also introduces a placidly smiley Kylie Jenner playing herself on seemingly a Valium-Adderall speedball of deluded bounciness.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Unlike the coolly impassive Pop artists, the Who weren’t afraid to get personal, or to let their art echo the anxious, kinky, maladjusted yammering in their own heads.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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The bezel round the screen is extremely narrow too, while the rear panel features a flat back and a side structure that coolly creates the impression of being created from a series of separate layers.—
John Archer,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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“Peacefully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peacefully. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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