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Recent Examples of ruthlessly
Audit your activities ruthlessly.
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Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
Much of this year’s online discourse has grown particularly toxic, as many WNBA fans ruthlessly tear down players in the name of their faves, with many of these players experiencing a torrent of online and verbal abuse.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
Marty Supreme stars Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a ping pong player in the 1950s who ruthlessly pursues table tennis greatness.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
However, as China ruthlessly pursues independent innovation, domestic substitution of imports has become a policy priority to ensure tech self-sufficiency in critical industries.
—Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2025
Few filmmakers have mined their own life as ruthlessly, or as artfully, as Noah Baumbach.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
Opera’s traditions highlight the preciousness of that talent and also ruthlessly expose its lack.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Before that, Abbie is being ruthlessly scrutinized and controlled by her parents, while Leila’s mother has mostly checked out after her elder daughter’s sudden death.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2025
All four victims had been ruthlessly stabbed to death before the attacker vanished through the kitchen’s sliding glass door and into the night.
—Ian Berry, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
Much of this year’s online discourse has grown particularly toxic, as many WNBA fans ruthlessly tear down players in the name of their faves, with many of these players experiencing a torrent of online and verbal abuse.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
Marty Supreme stars Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a ping pong player in the 1950s who ruthlessly pursues table tennis greatness.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
However, as China ruthlessly pursues independent innovation, domestic substitution of imports has become a policy priority to ensure tech self-sufficiency in critical industries.
—Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2025
Few filmmakers have mined their own life as ruthlessly, or as artfully, as Noah Baumbach.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
Opera’s traditions highlight the preciousness of that talent and also ruthlessly expose its lack.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Before that, Abbie is being ruthlessly scrutinized and controlled by her parents, while Leila’s mother has mostly checked out after her elder daughter’s sudden death.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2025
All four victims had been ruthlessly stabbed to death before the attacker vanished through the kitchen’s sliding glass door and into the night.
—Ian Berry, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruthlessly
Adverb
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Gossip Girl centered around a group of wealthy high school students who are being terrorized by a mysterious and vicious blogger (who was voiced by Kristen Bell) who mercilessly spills all of their secrets.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Nov. 2025
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The crowd boos Glen so mercilessly.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The first hour, set at a resort that’s like a singles cruise through the Twilight Zone (or Bachelor in Paradise beamed in from a brutal alternate universe), contains some of the most pitilessly funny scenes of the filmmaker’s career.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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In the process, Joel heartlessly killed some innocent people, including medical professionals.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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There is a troubling suggestion of abuse, implying that Jack might have been ill-treated by his mom (and saved by Helen), rather than heartlessly abandoned.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The director plays up the humor a lot more than Westlake’s callously cynical prose, for better or worse.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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But after the Sriracha-maker callously withheld payments from Underwood, the relationship deteriorated and litigation followed.—
Kate Vitasek,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The episode unsparingly examines cultural assumptions about race and colorism; similarly, HIM is a scathing critique of how professional sports capitalize upon the bodies and minds of Black athletes.—
Neda Ulaby,
NPR,
19 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The group, originally led by Seth Rollins, brutally betrayed him, which was used to write Rollins off television after an injury forced him to vacate the World Heavyweight Championship.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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On a brutally hot day this summer, my friend Max met up with his family at a playground.—
James Somers,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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In this volatile environment, comments that appear to minimize or frame the shooting insensitively—like Matt Gutman's—can quickly become career-ending.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Sahroni has faced accusations of responding insensitively to people calling for parliament to be dissolved amid anger over lawmakers’ allowances.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
31 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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After decades of obdurately refusing to entertain the idea of bestowing its computers with touch screens, rumor has it that Apple might finally offer this capability.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Ruthlessly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruthlessly. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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