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Recent Examples of somberly
Nantz somberly delivered the emotional news while taking several breaks to compose himself.
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Sean Neumann,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
The season's penultimate scene finds Carl at his favorite haunt, sipping his morning coffee while somberly staring at his tiny Tom Ruffage diorama figure.
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Matt Cabral,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 June 2026
The race there begins somberly in the museum before runners bound up one flight of stairs into a hallway that leads into the main stairwell; from there, the steps settle into continuous, shallow right turns providing a repetitive, hypnotic cadence.
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Michelle Sinclair Colman,
Curbed,
7 May 2026
The music came back on, and the men danced somberly to wedding music.
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Aidan McLaughlin,
Vanity Fair,
26 Apr. 2026
After a dear friend’s memorial service, the congregation somberly filed down the stairs into the church reception hall.
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Anne Byrn,
Southern Living,
11 Apr. 2026
Joseph and his supporters were clad in green and white and marched somberly to the election council’s headquarters.
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ABC News,
12 Mar. 2026
As a light dusting of snow fell over Minneapolis Sunday morning, community members lit candles, laid fresh flowers and stood somberly around a makeshift vigil at the site of Pretti’s death.
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Michael Biesecker,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Jan. 2026
In October, family, friends and community members somberly walked out of the courthouse, disappointed to learn the resentencing hearing for Rhoades would be delayed.
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Kayla Moeller,
CBS News,
20 Dec. 2025
Sean Neumann,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
The season's penultimate scene finds Carl at his favorite haunt, sipping his morning coffee while somberly staring at his tiny Tom Ruffage diorama figure.
—
Matt Cabral,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 June 2026
The race there begins somberly in the museum before runners bound up one flight of stairs into a hallway that leads into the main stairwell; from there, the steps settle into continuous, shallow right turns providing a repetitive, hypnotic cadence.
—
Michelle Sinclair Colman,
Curbed,
7 May 2026
The music came back on, and the men danced somberly to wedding music.
—
Aidan McLaughlin,
Vanity Fair,
26 Apr. 2026
After a dear friend’s memorial service, the congregation somberly filed down the stairs into the church reception hall.
—
Anne Byrn,
Southern Living,
11 Apr. 2026
Joseph and his supporters were clad in green and white and marched somberly to the election council’s headquarters.
—
ABC News,
12 Mar. 2026
As a light dusting of snow fell over Minneapolis Sunday morning, community members lit candles, laid fresh flowers and stood somberly around a makeshift vigil at the site of Pretti’s death.
—
Michael Biesecker,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Jan. 2026
In October, family, friends and community members somberly walked out of the courthouse, disappointed to learn the resentencing hearing for Rhoades would be delayed.
—
Kayla Moeller,
CBS News,
20 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for somberly
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Three of the four arrived soberly dressed, one of them, Hodgkin, in a black suit, folded his arms and stared glumly ahead.
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People can be seen running along the top of the bus and sitting on the front bumper as the driver stares glumly ahead from inside windows tagged with graffiti.
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Makeup highlights for the actress continued the punk edge, with bold brows, darkly lined eyes and a neutral, glossy lip by artist Tyron Machhausen.
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Netflix also has a pair of strong four-hour adaptations in the harrowing Lord of the Flies and the darkly comic political tragedy of Death by Lightning.
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Museums abhor windows, so the building has all the approachability of a medieval keep, as gloomily defensive as the park is welcoming.
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In Time Regained, the concluding volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, an older version of the narrator gloomily decides to attend a gathering at the Guermantes’ mansion.
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Take, for example, Keanu Reeves, who was memeified after a photo of the actor sullenly eating a sandwich went viral.
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Like a fisherman left empty-handed after a heavy pull at her line, the woman sullenly took Sam’s picture.
Adverb
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Adaptations of the Odyssey are always fleshy affairs, with half-naked men lying happily or forlornly on beaches.
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War of the Worlds star Ice Cube now has another reason to stare forlornly at his computer.
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The Vietnam War and Watergate had spawned a paralyzing sense of national distrust, and New Hollywood had reflected that reality beautifully but pessimistically.
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For example, professors Morana Koludrovic and Franceska Delija at the University of Split in Croatia also make the point, more pessimistically, however, that the young can no longer learn from the old, not with all the changes in technology and media.
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Then there is the steady stream of profiles on tech billionaires joylessly devoting themselves to maximizing their lifespan.
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But for now, the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer remains at a dismally low 13%, according to the American Cancer Society.
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The assets performed dismally in March but rebounded in April.
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“Somberly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/somberly. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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