as in heavily
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Adverb
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The music, which features heavily in the plot, is also growing in popularity across the U.S., just as the movie itself begins to drop ever so slightly.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025 -
On all of those questions, however, Californians were heavily divided along partisan lines.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
Adverb
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Prosecutors say Read deliberately hit O’Keefe, 46, outside the home a fellow cop and left him for dead in a drunken rage.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
14 May 2025
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Many couples had deliberately filed taxes separately for years to avoid having a higher combined income drive up their monthly student loan payments.—
Shahar Ziv,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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“Ploddingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ploddingly. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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