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Adverb
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Apparently, disturbingly short.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025 -
Presciently, disturbingly, Chocobar’s murder occurred on October 12, a day commemorated in Argentina as the start of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Animals are going extinct at an alarmingly fast rate, largely due to human activity.—
Darian Woods,
NPR,
9 Sep. 2025
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The answer, alarmingly, is yes.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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These include those who disgustingly celebrated the murder of Brian Thompson and all but beatified his alleged assassin, and those who made light of and mocked the attack on Pelosi’s family and the Minnesota lawmakers.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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Here, the Canadian auteur began to rewrite, or define altogether, body horror, and Shivers finds him at his most disgustingly wacky.—
Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Opioid addiction is distressingly common in nearly every contact and combat sport, but Kerr was isolated from the endemic abuse of painkillers in the industry.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Naturally, the theft of the ghost shirt by the stooges in the employ of Roy Lee is accompanied by many deceased bodies — the first of the many bloodbaths in Americana, which has a distressingly expedient approach to on-screen carnage.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
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But there’s also darkness in Cherry’s past, including an ex-boyfriend who has either terribly wronged her or been terribly wronged by her.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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And what if that fight didn’t go terribly well?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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There is, of course, a difference here, that being the fact that Netflix has annoyingly split season 2 of Wednesday into two parts, with the second airing on September 3, a month after the first.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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West Virginia in 2007 and Cincinnati in 2009 came awfully close.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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While skeptics will wisely point to the small sample size, Sox general manager Chris Getz and manager Will Venable must be getting awfully excited.—
Phil Rogers,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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But his spasms, vexingly, grew more frequent and severe.—
Tao Lin,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Perturbingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perturbingly. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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