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Lines of hundreds of guests snaked around the inside of the department store (which takes up an entire city block in Manhattan), with onlookers snapping photos quizzically.—
Anika Reed,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025 -
Daedone looked at me quizzically.—
Thessaly La Force,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
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Referring to news coverage of Tesla’s $1 trillion package for Elon Musk, Abramovic cursed at the thought incredulously.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
10 Nov. 2025
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Sanders interjected incredulously during a 2015 interview with the liberal columnist Ezra Klein.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Oct. 2025
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As Garfield hesitantly moves forward with his campaign, he is forced to align with Chester Arthur (Nick Offerman), who unexpectedly becomes his running mate, and with the domineering but highly influential Senator Roscoe Conkling (Shea Whigham).—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
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His crossing has often been a source of frustration, sometimes ballooning the ball too often, taking too long to put it into the area or cutting back on himself hesitantly.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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Candidates and their backers also typically knock on doors to get signatures, but that’s not an option this year as people look askance at strangers on their doorsteps.—
Patrick Marley,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
18 May 2020
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True, lots of good white progressives look askance at businessmen who amass vast fortunes.—
John Powers,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2020
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While aerial sightings have long been treated skeptically, the underwater dimension adds a new layer of complexity.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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Wiener isn’t Cuomo An internal poll released a few months ago (and any internal poll must be viewed skeptically) showed Chakrabarti drawing 34% of voters to Pelosi’s 47%.—
Anita Chabria,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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That sounds suspiciously like a magical pill that makes all your wishes come true—a bargain at $28 for four doses.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside,
29 Oct. 2025
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Or a functional quarterback with a suspiciously low ceiling?—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Questioningly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/questioningly. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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