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
Just because Harvard richly deserves this doesn’t mean that the law should be made ad hoc, one college at a time, under standards never ratified by the people’s representatives and whose application can’t be predicted in the future.
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The Editors, National Review, 5 May 2025
These are richly imagined characters rather than assemblages of traits correlating with plot as if in a showrunner’s bible.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
When coffee roasters describe their coffee as big, full-bodied, or round, this is a sign of a bean that's desperate to give up its secrets and so is more likely to extract fully and richly.
—Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 30 Apr. 2025
The Magnificent Seven are also less richly valued following the recent selloff: Alphabet, for example, trades at 17 times profits estimated over the next 12 months, compared with an average of 21 times over the past decade, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025
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The Editors, National Review, 5 May 2025
These are richly imagined characters rather than assemblages of traits correlating with plot as if in a showrunner’s bible.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
When coffee roasters describe their coffee as big, full-bodied, or round, this is a sign of a bean that's desperate to give up its secrets and so is more likely to extract fully and richly.
—Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 30 Apr. 2025
The Magnificent Seven are also less richly valued following the recent selloff: Alphabet, for example, trades at 17 times profits estimated over the next 12 months, compared with an average of 21 times over the past decade, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for richly
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The crypto industry writ large ended up as the largest source of political donations during the 2024 presidential election campaign.—
Rob Wile,
NBC News,
3 Mar. 2025
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And that's what law enforcement does and the first responder community writ large does every single day.—
Steve Inskeep,
NPR,
15 Jan. 2025
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Tkachuk was hit high after colliding with Penguins defenceman Ryan Graves near the end of the regular season.—
Julian McKenzie,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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The stress runs especially high here in Illinois, the United States’ No. 1 soybean-producing state.—
Laurent Belsie,
Christian Science Monitor,
1 May 2025
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“Richly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/richly. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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