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
The rally has been driven by megacap tech giants, which have invested billions in AI and are being valued richly on the potential of this emerging era.
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Yun Li, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
Call upon your trusty slow cooker to make this richly comforting potato soup.
—Elizabeth Mervosh, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
There’s no way to approximate this full-body experience or reproduce the effect of millions of richly acoustic notes shooting in all directions.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
Edison’s first fragile light bulbs were just one early step in the electric revolution that has helped create today’s richly illuminated world.
—Ernest Freeberg, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
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Yun Li, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
Call upon your trusty slow cooker to make this richly comforting potato soup.
—Elizabeth Mervosh, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
There’s no way to approximate this full-body experience or reproduce the effect of millions of richly acoustic notes shooting in all directions.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
Edison’s first fragile light bulbs were just one early step in the electric revolution that has helped create today’s richly illuminated world.
—Ernest Freeberg, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for richly
Adverb
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New technology can solve crimes faster, safer, and less expensively than ever before.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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In sport organizations, where cultures are often lean, fast-moving and emotionally charged, this spiral happens quickly and expensively.—
Rick Burton,
Sportico.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The throw is crafted with polyester, but don’t be fooled by its price; the intricate, woven yarn resembles that of expensive chenille, with a buttery-smooth texture that feels luxuriously soft to the touch.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
22 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps its most impressive (and long-awaited) upgrade is the stunning OLED screen, which makes using this tablet feel luxuriously high-end.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
9 Oct. 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
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Around this time, Gaudí was overseeing the building of the Casa Milà, a sumptuously curvaceous apartment building in Barcelona.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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In the first period, Jake McCabe hit Bowen Byram up high when Byram wasn’t looking, and Alex Tuch immediately jumped in to fight McCabe.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025
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The early voting turnout results could also spell trouble for independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, a former governor of New York, as the high-voting boroughs were those that his rival, Democrat candidate Zohran Mamdani, won in the June primary.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Week 7’s two Monday games saw the Detroit Lions comfortably handle the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Seahawks outlast the Houston Texans to provide a small salve to Seattle sports fans.—
Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
21 Oct. 2025
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Then the family will be back together again comfortably.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Richly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/richly. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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