silently

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Recent Examples of silently One is Eva Muñoz (Justina Machado), Senior’s ex-wife, who immediately starts silently and unnervingly eyeing the firm’s newest partner, Olympia. Noel Murray, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025 After all, in the early days of literacy, reading—now perhaps the paradigmatic example of a non-screen-time activity—was considered ominous; people reading silently to themselves might have seemed demented. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025 These incidents highlight how context poisoning and prompt manipulation can silently break AI safeguards. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025 Keeping to the pact, Greenstein left the William Morris conference room silently and made his way back to the studio, leaving Rothman, Panitch, and O’Dell to carry on reading. Jay Glennie, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025 Russell, for her part, can match Sewell’s intensity without uttering a word, as in a scene where Kate silently unpins her hair while Hal spirals out over Grace’s VP offer. Alison Herman, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025 Paul King had to walk by that poster every day on his walk to school, silently seething. Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025 Wounded and bewildered, Theresa vows—silently—never to have that feeling again, never to be at anyone else’s mercy. Hilton Als, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025 The Democrat continued to face forward silently despite the taunting. Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 11 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for silently
Adverb
  • Steve taught me how to travel soundlessly through the lowland wilderness.
    Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • This is the painstaking process of counting and measuring every stud, sheet of drywall, window, and baseboard from 2D plans, quietly devouring time and budgets.
    Jon Stojan, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The Mexican government, for its part, was being quietly coöperative at the border, and the country’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, was managing to balance public opposition to Trump with greater flexibility in private.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Silently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silently. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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