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Recent Examples of spectacularly
If Tell Me Lies scratched your itch for watching wealthy, beautiful people make spectacularly terrible decisions that ripple through their entire social circle, Gossip Girl basically invented that formula.
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Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
But the new uniforms flopped spectacularly upon their debut in spring training, with players complaining that the jerseys looked cheap, felt papery and that the names on the back were too small.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 18 Feb. 2026
And now these titles are doing spectacularly.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
This, if possible, blows up in her face even more spectacularly than the brunch fiasco.
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2026
Malinin is not the first great athlete to spectacularly implode in his biggest moment, just the latest in a long line of them.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
Dennis Quaid and Billy Bob Thornton play, respectively, Sam Houston and Davy Crockett in a film that bombed spectacularly at the box office despite competent execution of the titular battle.
—David Faris, TheWeek, 16 Feb. 2026
Journalists, players and sometimes even media officers have felt the force of his temper, perhaps helping to explain why some jobs have gone spectacularly well while others have unravelled quickly.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
Callie hangs out with her more inhibited best friend, Minnie Dunn, played spectacularly well by Katherine Mallen Kupferer.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
But the new uniforms flopped spectacularly upon their debut in spring training, with players complaining that the jerseys looked cheap, felt papery and that the names on the back were too small.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 18 Feb. 2026
And now these titles are doing spectacularly.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
This, if possible, blows up in her face even more spectacularly than the brunch fiasco.
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2026
Malinin is not the first great athlete to spectacularly implode in his biggest moment, just the latest in a long line of them.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
Dennis Quaid and Billy Bob Thornton play, respectively, Sam Houston and Davy Crockett in a film that bombed spectacularly at the box office despite competent execution of the titular battle.
—David Faris, TheWeek, 16 Feb. 2026
Journalists, players and sometimes even media officers have felt the force of his temper, perhaps helping to explain why some jobs have gone spectacularly well while others have unravelled quickly.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
Callie hangs out with her more inhibited best friend, Minnie Dunn, played spectacularly well by Katherine Mallen Kupferer.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spectacularly
Adverb
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And this strikingly immediate version foregrounds intimacy and texture.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
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Its inbound and outbound migration patterns were strikingly similar.—
Chaya Tong,
Austin American Statesman,
16 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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But it’s also richly informed by intuition.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
21 Feb. 2026
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Commoners were considered poor, but had a richly varied diet at a time when the English elite had come to favor meat, wheat, and sugar, the precursor to today’s fast-food diet.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Sold to Menemsha, genuinely tense and gorgeously shot, highlighting the heavenly mountains and a historical hell.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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The camera lingers on dripping egg yolks and squishy, bubbling dough; the protagonist, Cathy Earnshaw (played by Margot Robbie), must wade through pig’s blood on her way to the moors near her home, leaving a trim of viscera on her gorgeously anachronistic dress.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
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Yet this is truly an ensemble show, in which each performer has multiple opportunities to shine, executing some splendidly silly bits together, such as delivering CPR to a sandwich or convincingly channeling their inner tots during some post-bedtime horseplay.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
1 Feb. 2026
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Day trips to Amalfi-style Taormina are well-advised for those who have yet to gawp at its clifftop panoramas across the Mediterranean or its film star hotels, as are jaunts to the rambling flea markets and splendidly scruffy trattorias of nearby Catania.—
Rosalyn Wikeley,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Spectacularly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spectacularly. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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