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Recent Examples of sensitively
Among the film’s challenges were intimate scenes between María Ángeles and her new beau (Ahmed Boulane), which are sensitively handled.
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Alissa Simon, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
Alissa Simon, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sensitively
Adverb
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Technology leaders who approach implementation thoughtfully—balancing innovation with security, efficiency with control and investment with ROI—will position themselves at the forefront of financial services evolution.—
Dave Glaser,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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When asking questions is seen as challenging authority instead of engaging thoughtfully, that’s a culture built on control, not growth.—
Rolling Stone Culture Council,
Rolling Stone,
10 Sep. 2025
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An exceptional 60-piece jewelry collection lovingly amassed by one very discerning international collector will be auctioned off at Sotheby’s New York on December 8.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
8 Sep. 2025
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Another photo focused on the sonogram images, while the last shot showed Dawson and Sykes gazing lovingly at one another, while Iris stood next to them in front of the ocean.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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Maura’s performance makes Maria Angeles so magnetic and eccentric — earthily practical on some matters, dizzily irrational on others, and sympathetically true to herself on all fronts — that all the film’s other players want for detail and texture by comparison.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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Others view Russia sympathetically.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
24 Aug. 2025
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To take part in the challenge, participants were required to pass an online training, as per the event's website, and had to kill the pythons humanely.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Ikejime is the technique used by Japanese fishermen for centuries to slaughter fish instantly and humanely by inserting a spike into the brain.—
Akiko Katayama,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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One of the highlights of the night was when Bridgerton took the Emmy for Outstanding Costumes and winner John Walter Glaser’s pants kept falling down (but not to his knees, mercifully).—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
6 Sep. 2025
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Even when Volpe struck out to mercifully end the inning, Ogasawara needed six pitches to do it.—
Jon Paul Hoornstra,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Aug. 2025
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Each was compassionately euthanized Thursday.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Aug. 2025
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This means training businesses, libraries and public service workers to interact compassionately with people living with cognitive impairments.—
Taylor Penn-Vessels,
Baltimore Sun,
18 June 2025
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“Sensitively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sensitively. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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