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Adverb
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When people rely heavily on AI for writing tasks, their brains show measurably weaker connectivity patterns.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025 -
This suggests that in an economy in which wages are typically not keeping up with the rate of inflation, American households are leaning more heavily on credit cards just to cover everyday expenses.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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Bluesky, part of the decentralized internet, is slower paced and caters to niche interests, rewarding internecine fights over minutiae, whereas X is deliberately chaotic, encouraging the gathering of follower-armies and ideological insult-comedy for an audience that may be largely made up of bots.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
10 Sep. 2025
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People can deliberately cultivate more conscientiousness, boost their sociability or soften their neurotic edges.—
Dave Winsborough,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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That first session, Jacintha held Lucy’s hand, cautiously optimistic.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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DeCurtis, though, remains cautiously optimistic for the instrument’s future.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Ploddingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ploddingly. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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