shallowly

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Recent Examples of shallowly 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
Adverb
  • Democratic New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill is narrowly in the lead in the New Jersey gubernatorial race but her Republican rival Jack Ciattarelli is catching up, according to a poll.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Ward 3 Dave Myres Dave Myres, an Army veteran and medical sales professional, ran and narrowly lost in 2017 to Justin Adrian.
    PJ Green October 20, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Each said the department's practices are inadequately protecting students.
    Danielle DuClos, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Fueling your body inadequately will leave you feeling dissatisfied and undernourished.
    Jamie Johnson, Verywell Health, 10 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Certain men who look a certain way and have a certain pedigree can behave imperfectly, to say the least, and still be confirmed into a position of power that has long-reaching consequences.
    Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In productions large or small — or, here, imperfectly in-between, though still glorious — everything is the service of the show that creates with words, music and movement a grand American tapestry — tears and all.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Sennecke has soaked up instruction and summarily discarded poor habits from the preseason.
    Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
  • By Dom Luszczyszyn, Sean Gentille and Shayna Goldman Coming into last season, the Washington Capitals had taken major steps to improve a roster that, by plenty of measures, had fluked its way into the postseason and summarily gotten stomped in the first round.
    The Athletic NHL, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The Raines’ lawsuit describes a phenomenon that is superficially similar, though with far more urgent consequences.
    Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But while a dual CEO structure may superficially make sense for Disney, company insiders and corporate governance experts warn there are considerations specific to the Mouse House that would make such a dynamic unwise.
    Alex Sherman, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Shallowly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shallowly. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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