PROMISINGLY Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

promisingly

adverb

as in favorably

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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! —

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. —

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. —

John Choong, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025 The year didn't start promisingly. —

Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025

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Nearly half of Hispanic independents — 46% — saw Trump favorably in the polling conducted around the presidential election.

— Linley Sanders, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
Steyer, a former hedge fund founder who left his company to pursue environmental activism and politics, was viewed favorably by 39% of voters but unfavorably by 43%, the poll found.

— John Woolfolk, Mercury News, 11 June 2026