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Recent Examples of silently
Each line encourages a body to shift when uttered or even when read silently to oneself.
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Literary Hub, 29 May 2026
Inside a black metal cage at the courtroom’s edge, three men waited silently to face the chief judge, a burly brigadier general in the Lebanese Army.
—Euan Ward, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
At sunset, the city starts glowing around you while traffic crawls silently below.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 May 2026
Anthropic said the new model is better at flagging uncertainty and identifying flaws in its own outputs instead of silently passing errors through.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
The Metro-North Platform in Stamford The Stamford train platform is not exactly poetry — unless your idea of romance involves delayed commuters, laptop bags, and people silently negotiating personal space.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 27 May 2026
The truck just leans into the work and gets on with life like a ranch foreman who drinks coffee black and silently judges your hitch setup.
—New Atlas, 27 May 2026
Because in any supply chain, the majority of transactions flow silently.
—Mahesh Rajasekharan, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
The roof trusses were visible, and excavators sat silently outside what was left of the building.
—Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
Literary Hub, 29 May 2026
Inside a black metal cage at the courtroom’s edge, three men waited silently to face the chief judge, a burly brigadier general in the Lebanese Army.
—Euan Ward, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
At sunset, the city starts glowing around you while traffic crawls silently below.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 May 2026
Anthropic said the new model is better at flagging uncertainty and identifying flaws in its own outputs instead of silently passing errors through.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
The Metro-North Platform in Stamford The Stamford train platform is not exactly poetry — unless your idea of romance involves delayed commuters, laptop bags, and people silently negotiating personal space.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 27 May 2026
The truck just leans into the work and gets on with life like a ranch foreman who drinks coffee black and silently judges your hitch setup.
—New Atlas, 27 May 2026
Because in any supply chain, the majority of transactions flow silently.
—Mahesh Rajasekharan, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
The roof trusses were visible, and excavators sat silently outside what was left of the building.
—Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for silently
Adverb
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But my next words slipped soundlessly to the ground before the yellow vinyl material, like the final sprays of a park fountain at closing time.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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The Drifters Ferris wheel sent riders floating in hot air balloons that soared soundlessly toward the glass dome above the park.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
5 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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The Nationals picked the 25-year-old up off the scrap heap after spring training and now Mead is quietly in the middle of a breakout year.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
31 May 2026
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Just days earlier, another event quietly illustrated the same shift from trade toward deeper integration.—
Li Jun,
Footwear News,
31 May 2026
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“Silently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silently. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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