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spectacularly

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Definition of spectacularly

as in strikingly

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Recent Examples of spectacularly For Clarke, the nineteen-seventies were eventful, sometimes spectacularly so. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026 Winnipeg’s old-school approach to line matching worked spectacularly during most of Rick Bowness’ tenure and again in 2024-25 under Scott Arniel. — Murat Ates, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026 With Almond-Toe Black Pumps One spectacularly easy way to style leggings this fall? — Renata Joffre, Glamour, 18 Aug. 2026 But when disastrous dates, suspicious children and spectacularly misguided attempts at ‘conscious uncoupling’ throw their perfect plan into chaos, Clarissa and Franklin discover that getting divorced is the easy part. — Alex Ritman, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026 The strategy worked spectacularly for much of the fund's short history. — Yun Li, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026 The United States, after all, is already a spectacularly rich country and can easily afford to pay the higher interest rates—if the government is willing to adjust long-term tax and spending trajectories accordingly. — Kenneth S. Rogoff, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2026 The long, thin leaves are spectacularly patterned and colorful to boot. — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 12 Aug. 2026 In some cases, the most likely nominees early on fell spectacularly short of capturing the nomination, as happened to Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani in 2008, noted Panagopoulos. — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 9 Aug. 2026

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The early quantum pioneers didn’t realize — at first — that the arcane math that strikingly captured the conduct of atoms had left the real world behind.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026
Trump’s potential Republican successors, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, differ strikingly in their views of what to do next.

— Nate Swanson, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of strikingly

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Sandy Honig made a short film, The Weird Guy, last year that is so funny and also gorgeously shot.

— Lisa Hanawalt, The New York Review of Books, 15 Aug. 2026
One Friday post, for example, shows footage from Super Heavy of Ship cruising away shortly after stage separation, its six Raptors glowing with exertion against the backdrop of a gorgeously blue Earth.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 July 2026

Definition of gorgeously

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Here in the famous Festival Theatre, the sprite Ariel, played in splendidly sprightly fashion by Marissa Orjalo, opens up the top of a piano, a piece of island flotsam and Prospero, in the form of the veteran actor Geraint Wyn Davies, shoves his coat inside, throws up his hands and closes the lid.

— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
And here is a helpful tip — a teaspoon of honey enhances the flavors splendidly.

— Ed Silverman, STAT, 16 June 2026

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