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Demented cheering was broadcast on social media so loudly that many not-terribly-political Americans took notice.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Oct. 2025 -
Not terribly long ago, Spanish restaurants were abundant in this part of Manhattan, but a good number have died off in recent years.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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Noel Acciari, who has been horribly banged up in recent years, made his preseason debut in this one.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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With a parachute billowing behind him, Miura makes a couple of pizza turns on the sheer and horribly icy Lhotse Face before catching an edge and then tumbling several thousand feet to the bank of a crevasse.—
Outside,
Outside,
25 Sep. 2025
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The Matthew Knies, Auston Matthews and Matias Maccelli line was awfully quiet, save for a bad penalty by Knies and the nice empty-netter from Matthews.—
James Mirtle,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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No details on who Briney is playing have been announced, but HBO Max did release a sneak peek photo from Season 5, with Briney’s character looking awfully chummy with Jean Smart’s Deborah.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
9 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The Sabres didn’t play quite as poorly as that 4-0 score indicates.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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The other people Ye tries to big-foot into indulging his perverse Peter Pan complex fare more poorly.—
Derek Robertson,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The country’s leaders, ostensibly engineers, got their calculations disastrously wrong and built too much of everything, including high-speed rail.—
Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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Here are five examples of proposals that went disastrously wrong.—
Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
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Confidence in the media is abysmally low, a finding confirmed regularly by many pollsters asking many different questions.—
Karlyn Bowman,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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When people are perhaps more vulnerable than any other moment and that vulnerability is, horrifically, exploited.—
Diana Arterian,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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The film follows Mark and Dawn through horrifically fraught times, as Mark battles an opioid addiction and Dawn struggles to support her mercurial man through personal and professional upheavals.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
1 Oct. 2025
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Taking just the bare stats into consideration, Rooney's managerial career has been defined by a horrendously low win rate, but that is in addition to a spate of embarrassing off-field antics.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Rottenly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rottenly. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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