as in expensively
in a luxurious manner
a richly decorated penthouse that showed off the owner's art collection to its best advantage
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Recent Examples of richly
Production designer James Merifield gives the settings some country-estate grandeur and it is all richly photographed by Don Burgess.
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Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025
Some have Art Deco tiles; others are as richly patterned as mosques.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Aug. 2025
Specifically, the temporally thin nature of classical digital computation — one state after another, with the inter-state time interval being totally arbitrary — seems fundamentally incompatible with the nature of consciousness as a richly dynamical process.
—Anil Seth, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
The resulting dish — with neutral and fresh green hues — is creamy, lemony, herbaceous and richly satisfying.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
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Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025
Some have Art Deco tiles; others are as richly patterned as mosques.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Aug. 2025
Specifically, the temporally thin nature of classical digital computation — one state after another, with the inter-state time interval being totally arbitrary — seems fundamentally incompatible with the nature of consciousness as a richly dynamical process.
—Anil Seth, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
The resulting dish — with neutral and fresh green hues — is creamy, lemony, herbaceous and richly satisfying.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for richly
Adverb
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Can something so one-directional, so expensively legacy-media, be combined with something this grassroots, this user-generated, this 2025?—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Aug. 2025
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Also great for very, very expensively besieging castles.—
Evan AckermanErico Guizzo,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 Jan. 2016
Adverb
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Sunset Luxury Smokeshow Co also has a luxuriously soft line of mesh clothing.—
Emily Earlenbaugh,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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During the height of summer, nothing is quite as satisfying as ice-cold fruit, and this retro recipe combines sweet, frozen fruit with a luxuriously creamy base that can be sliced and served whenever a friend stops by or a craving strikes.—
Stephanie Ganz,
Southern Living,
22 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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That’s probably because the shoes come up large and were slightly too wide in our regular size.—
Jessica Macdonald,
Travel + Leisure,
9 June 2025
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That these are happening at a moment of precariousness for the industry writ large makes the stakes that much higher.—
Peter Kiefer,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2025
Adverb
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Lobster is the most popular entrée and it is sumptuously served once a week – such as broiled, in risotto, or Thermidor, and all menus repeat after 28 days.—
Debbi Kickham,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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But the fact that single men are deciding to start families on their own, some of them paying extravagantly for egg donation and surrogacy, might also say something about just how important fatherhood is for many men today.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
19 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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After driving his team to the 1-yard line, Fields fooled the entire Steelers defense on a fourth down, faking a handoff and then high-stepping into the end zone untouched to take a 32-31 lead.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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With that said, his biggest flaw remains a tendency to sail throws high from the pocket.—
Tim Crowley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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In Colombia, the majority of survey respondents said their disposable income was enough to live comfortably — 92% compared with 69% globally.—
Ernestine Siu,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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The 48-by-32-inch tabletop is small enough to stow in a corner but still spacious enough to comfortably sit four people without feeling cramped.—
Jamie Fischer,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Richly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/richly. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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