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Recent Examples of promisingly
The film opens very promisingly though with a much more up to date takeoff on this year’s Best Picture Oscar winner, One Battle After Another in the form of Teyana Taylor sitting at a bar playing her sassy self, shouting Viva Le Revolution!
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Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
4 June 2026
Gray threw six innings on 78 pitches, allowed one run with two hits and one walk, and most promisingly struck out a season-high six batters.
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Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
14 May 2026
To be fair, things start promisingly enough, instantly raising the pulses with a dramatic seabound scene where Claflin’s dashing sailor Edmond Dantès — at the behest of his dying captain — must navigate their ship through a violent storm.
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Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2026
The 22-year-old, who had his first international call-up last year, has had a mixed spell in Yorkshire, having started promisingly before a three-game ban after being sent off for a dangerous challenge in a 3-1 defeat by Barnsley at the end of August.
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Elias Burke,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
The match started out promisingly for Capistrano Valley Christian (14-22-1) when McKenzie Meserve opened the first set serving three consecutive aces.
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Lou Ponsi,
Oc Register,
23 Nov. 2025
Peter Hedges’s drama about a young recovering addict (Lucas Hedges) coming back unannounced to his family starts off promisingly, with Roberts’s supportive but wary character trying to manage her complicated feelings about her son’s return.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
More promisingly, grocery inflation looks to have peaked as well, with August’s release seeing the first deceleration since January.
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John Choong,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
The year didn't start promisingly.
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Chris Foran,
jsonline.com,
30 Aug. 2025
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
4 June 2026
Gray threw six innings on 78 pitches, allowed one run with two hits and one walk, and most promisingly struck out a season-high six batters.
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Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
14 May 2026
To be fair, things start promisingly enough, instantly raising the pulses with a dramatic seabound scene where Claflin’s dashing sailor Edmond Dantès — at the behest of his dying captain — must navigate their ship through a violent storm.
—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2026
The 22-year-old, who had his first international call-up last year, has had a mixed spell in Yorkshire, having started promisingly before a three-game ban after being sent off for a dangerous challenge in a 3-1 defeat by Barnsley at the end of August.
—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
The match started out promisingly for Capistrano Valley Christian (14-22-1) when McKenzie Meserve opened the first set serving three consecutive aces.
—
Lou Ponsi,
Oc Register,
23 Nov. 2025
Peter Hedges’s drama about a young recovering addict (Lucas Hedges) coming back unannounced to his family starts off promisingly, with Roberts’s supportive but wary character trying to manage her complicated feelings about her son’s return.
—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
More promisingly, grocery inflation looks to have peaked as well, with August’s release seeing the first deceleration since January.
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John Choong,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
The year didn't start promisingly.
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Chris Foran,
jsonline.com,
30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for promisingly
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If the balance sheet is sound, management incentives are improving and a credible catalyst exists, the uncertainty may resolve more favorably than the valuation assumes.
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The House bill was reported favorably by the Ways and Means committee in March.
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His stint began auspiciously with an encounter with the late owner George Steinbrenner in a hotel elevator in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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Carlson’s started auspiciously.
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The release of the new batch of episodes almost perfectly coincides with an exceptionally rainy, stormy and destructive year for Chicago and Illinois as a whole.
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Flat Tops has an outstanding interconnected trail system linking over 300 miles of backcountry trails that are perfectly suited for multi-day loops.
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Still, Calabrese says any kind of travel expenses should go through layers of approval and be properly justified.
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Feduccia got back to the front of the plate with plenty of time but wasn’t positioned properly to make the tag as Perdomo made a swim move and touched the plate with his right hand.
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Its governance and impact have rightly been the subject of intense investigative reporting over the years, with journalists revealing corruption scandals and human rights violations that far outlive the games.
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In 1979, when Thatcher took over 10 Downing Street, Britain was rightly labeled the economic sick man of Europe.
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