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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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Working closely with clients everywhere from Orange County to Nashville, Jux and Co Studio thoughtfully crafts interiors that are true reflections of their owners.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
3 Sep. 2025
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Comment thoughtfully on their posts three times per week.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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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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The first engagement photo shows Travis proposing on bended knee as Swift lovingly rests one hand on his face.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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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
Adverb
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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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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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While Kurt Warner, Carson Palmer and Jake Plummer all produced tremendous moments (Warner and Palmer are in the Cardinals’ Ring of Honor), many Arizona quarterbacks have been one and, mercifully, done.—
Doug Haller,
New York Times,
25 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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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 9 Sep. 2025.
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