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Recent Examples of shallowly
Yet another approach is to merely and shallowly describe the persona based on your overall semblance of the person.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shallowly
Adverb
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Democrats countered that the GOP proposal actually is partisan, since Republicans are seeking to extend funding following the passage of a controversial spending bill that narrowly passed in July over the objections of all congressional Democrats.—
Kevin Breuninger,Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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Holladay, 42, ran against Wing in 2024, with Wing narrowly defeating the Democratic challenger by a margin of 7,541 to 7,255.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Social media companies, from Meta to X, have largely abandoned any attempt at moderating content on their platforms, having previously (albeit inadequately) attempted some form of fact-checking and take-downs of incendiary material and flagrant disinformation.—
Time,
Time,
20 Sep. 2025
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For most of the nearly 20% of kindergartners who haven’t had their full schedule of shots, their families have never requested an exemption; the children are simply inadequately immunized.—
Jason Kane,
NBC news,
15 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Godwin is a prime representative of how, for many 2026 Stagecoach performers, success represents an imperfectly perfect full-circle moment.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
Nashville Tennessean,
25 Sep. 2025
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And the work is less about choosing between roles and more about designing a life where both can coexist, however imperfectly.—
Jennifer Jay Palumbo,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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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
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Five agents and top-level executives were known to have been summarily fired last month in a wave of ousters that current and former officials say has contributed to declining morale.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Though the album’s genres are superficially diverse—you’ll hear flashes of grunge, trap, and, yes, reggae—its arrangements could work fine as royalty-free background music for content creators.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
3 Oct. 2025
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Jonas Vogler’s ethereal choral score reminds us that these superficially nice, attractive people are nevertheless as artificial in their habitat as exotic species in a zoo cage.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Shallowly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shallowly. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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