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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.
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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
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
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Steve taught me how to travel soundlessly through the lowland wilderness.—
Charles Elliott,
Outdoor Life,
21 Aug. 2025
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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
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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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