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Recent Examples of shallowly
Avoid watering frequently and shallowly as this will worsen the condition.
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Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
Water plants slowly and deeply, rather than quickly and shallowly.
—Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 18 Apr. 2026
Habitat and botanical characteristics Minari grows best where the ground stays consistently moist or shallowly flooded.
—Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Mar. 2026
The infamous gossip blogger took to social media over the weekend to share a video of himself breathing shallowly in a hospital bed, with a tube of oxygen hooked up through his nostrils.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026
Screen or email apnea happens when someone unconsciously holds their breath or breathes more shallowly while looking at their screen to answer emails or texts, explained Dora Kamau, lead mindfulness and meditation teacher at Headspace.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 23 Feb. 2026
Obstructive sleep apnea is a disorder in which people briefly stop breathing or breath very shallowly during sleep, multiple times per hour.
—Becky Upham, EverydayHealth.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Yet another approach is to merely and shallowly describe the persona based on your overall semblance of the person.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
Water plants slowly and deeply, rather than quickly and shallowly.
—Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 18 Apr. 2026
Habitat and botanical characteristics Minari grows best where the ground stays consistently moist or shallowly flooded.
—Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Mar. 2026
The infamous gossip blogger took to social media over the weekend to share a video of himself breathing shallowly in a hospital bed, with a tube of oxygen hooked up through his nostrils.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026
Screen or email apnea happens when someone unconsciously holds their breath or breathes more shallowly while looking at their screen to answer emails or texts, explained Dora Kamau, lead mindfulness and meditation teacher at Headspace.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 23 Feb. 2026
Obstructive sleep apnea is a disorder in which people briefly stop breathing or breath very shallowly during sleep, multiple times per hour.
—Becky Upham, EverydayHealth.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Yet another approach is to merely and shallowly describe the persona based on your overall semblance of the person.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shallowly
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Turkey’s politics remain heavily polarized, with the country largely being arrayed half for Erdogan and his Justice and Development (AKP) party and half against them, the former of whom have narrowly eked out major electoral victories to grow Erdogan’s power.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
14 June 2026
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Green Dot contends that the school district opted for a narrowly bureaucratic perspective to conclude incorrectly that Locke has fallen fatally short of the mark under Green Dot.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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The plaintiffs—seven Syrian nationals, together with advocacy organizations—argued that the administration’s decision was arbitrary, inadequately justified, and motivated by impermissible considerations.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Nov. 2025
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Decades of underfunding and under-research mean women are still diagnosed late, treated inadequately, and left to manage conditions that could have been prevented or better addressed.—
Maria Shriver,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
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Hair becomes imperfectly perfect and air-dried, makeup gets lighter and more breathable, and nail appointments tend to prioritize practicality just as much as aesthetics.—
Rebecca Norris,
InStyle,
8 June 2026
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Italy is asking that question right now — imperfectly, politically, with lots of budget fights.—
Teresa Ghilarducci,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2026
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Soon afterward, my mother was summarily banished from The Perfect Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving.—
Daisy Rockwell,
Vogue,
27 Nov. 2025
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In March 1963, Pym’s longtime publisher, Jonathan Cape, summarily rejected not just her latest manuscript, An Unsuitable Attachment, but all her work as no longer publishable.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Nov. 2025
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Such lovers can soothe certain wounds in your soul, but only temporarily, only superficially.—
Taiye Selasi,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
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The bar was set high from here, but even the best Bond games have only superficially tackled the essence of the spy fantasy.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2026
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