restrainedly

adverb

as in reasonably

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for restrainedly
  1. reasonably
  2. moderately
  3. poorly
  4. prudently
  5. sensibly
  6. conservatively
  7. economically
  8. cheaply
Adverb
  • But the smartest among them—or just the most ambitious—might reasonably conclude that the way to be funny for a living is to get very good at talking to their friends and interviewing people.
    — Dan Brooks, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Are there simply too many scary movies, or just more than any one fan can reasonably follow?
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of reasonably
Adverb
  • Today’s puzzle took our testers an average of 5 guesses out of 6, or moderately challenging.
    — New York Times Games, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2026
  • This was a scarring experience for the socially insecure MAGA set, and Fox News covered the moderately newsworthy incident with the same zeal as CNN tracking Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of moderately
Adverb
  • Coach Curt Cignetti was asked after the game how his team could play so poorly for most of three quarters and still pull out a win.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The bet went swimmingly for the house and poorly for its takers.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of poorly
Adverb
  • Jiangxing Intelligence, a physical AI firm, has developed an AI ‘brain’ that monitors environmental conditions around renewable energy infrastructure to ensure electricity is collected and stored prudently.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Under a 2019 law brought by Newsom to protect utilities from bankruptcy, the companies automatically are deemed to have acted prudently if regulators sign off on their wildfire prevention plan.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of prudently
Adverb
  • My favorite picture in the book finds a sensibly blue Subaru station wagon that has somehow turned on its side in the middle of the night.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Given the limited floorspace, Tiny Tect Tiny Houses has sensibly kept the interior layout quite simple.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of sensibly
Adverb
  • Rooms are conservatively classic, but common spaces don't hold back with requisite lobby lounge piano, over-the-top holiday decorations, a grand staircase, and marble fireplace.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • All these geopolitical variables put a partial freeze on energy dealmaking—potential sellers ask for more money on inflated valuations, while the buyers think longer term and conservatively.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of conservatively
Adverb
  • Making short-haul rail more competitive Parallel argues that its system could open routes that are currently difficult for conventional rail services to serve economically, particularly journeys under 500 miles.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2026
  • The court didn’t find that hospitals were economically entitled to the markup.
    — Casey B. Mulligan, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of economically
Adverb
  • Put into bat, India got off to a good start despite losing Sanju Samson (3) cheaply.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
  • TypeSafe says Jev is designed to handle these judgments faster and more cheaply than general-purpose language models, but with the same ability to set up the classifier through easy, natural language instructions that LLMs offer.
    — Wen Shao, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of cheaply
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