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Recent Examples of spectacularly
All this acrimony stemmed from a case where Fulton County Prosecutor Fani Willis spectacularly whiffed while attempting to criminalize rap lyrics and super glue the misdeeds of everyone Thug and Gunna knew onto them.
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Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
Hubble’s views spectacularly revealed many massive stars in Pismis 24.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Sep. 2025
However, the two events will have spectacularly different audiences — and neither will include North America.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
These politicians are missing the point spectacularly.
—Jack Sheehan
september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Nosedived pretty spectacularly at Manchester United when his end-product fell off a cliff amid question marks over his attitude from successive managers.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
One attempt to stop the missile spectacularly bombs, like a bullet hitting a bullet, as the military tries to intercept the missile with its own, Baker incensed by the failure of a $50-billion coin toss to land heads up.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
The gamble that antidemocrats could be tamed if they were granted power had failed spectacularly.
—Daniel Ziblatt, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2025
These logical, step-by-step arguments have to span many fields of mathematics—exactly the sort of problems that, until just this year, AI systems failed at spectacularly.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2025
Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
Hubble’s views spectacularly revealed many massive stars in Pismis 24.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Sep. 2025
However, the two events will have spectacularly different audiences — and neither will include North America.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
These politicians are missing the point spectacularly.
—Jack Sheehan
september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Nosedived pretty spectacularly at Manchester United when his end-product fell off a cliff amid question marks over his attitude from successive managers.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
One attempt to stop the missile spectacularly bombs, like a bullet hitting a bullet, as the military tries to intercept the missile with its own, Baker incensed by the failure of a $50-billion coin toss to land heads up.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
The gamble that antidemocrats could be tamed if they were granted power had failed spectacularly.
—Daniel Ziblatt, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2025
These logical, step-by-step arguments have to span many fields of mathematics—exactly the sort of problems that, until just this year, AI systems failed at spectacularly.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spectacularly
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The Nortiv 8 Lightweight Hiking Shoes definitely fit the bill, and look strikingly similar, too—and for only $58.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Sep. 2025
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Even more strikingly, Netanyahu falsely claimed that the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, had already passed a bill recognizing the Armenian genocide—a statement that is entirely untrue.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Ravn’s prose is striking too, richly marbled with quotation and detail pulled from primary source letters and court documents.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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Using faux chenille, a fabric manipulation technique that creates layered textures, Threadapeutic produces richly tactile works that can take three months to complete, such as Gather and Shore wall hangings made from lace, brocade and tulle scraps.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The show’s palette trends toward bottle-green woods, gauzy golden light, dusky midnight-blue nighttime scenes, and grimly gray interiors, and within those tableaus, Task’s male characters are gorgeously aggrieved, emotion pouring off of them like coffee from a Wawa urn.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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The documentary begins gorgeously, with a blur slowly coming into focus.—
Jeremy Helligar,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis got along splendidly on the set of Black Swan — despite director Darren Aronofsky's best efforts.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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And talking of hackers and Windows, both came together rather splendidly in Las Vegas at the Black Hat hacking conference where it was demonstrated how the Windows Hello facial recognition sign-in security could be bypassed by a threat actor injecting their own images into the process.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Spectacularly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spectacularly. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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