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Recent Examples of strikingly
Most strikingly, 24% of patients were free of seizures – something rarely seen in a treatment-resistant population.
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New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2025
The Panthers need to continue to feed him, especially as Young looks so strikingly inconsistent.
—Diamond Vences, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
What’s most strikingly similar is that Fortune 500 companies were excited about expert systems and spent big money to adopt them, and some found huge productivity gains from using them.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
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
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, 4 Sep. 2025
Figure’s Vision Language Action (VLA) model has enabled the Figure 02 humanoid to take on a new household challenge — loading a dishwasher with strikingly human-like skill.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Regardless of their reasons for doing so, engagement levels are strikingly high among teens and many of them can't pull themselves away.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
The shirt was being worn by a model that looked strikingly like the 27-year-old accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2025
The Panthers need to continue to feed him, especially as Young looks so strikingly inconsistent.
—Diamond Vences, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
What’s most strikingly similar is that Fortune 500 companies were excited about expert systems and spent big money to adopt them, and some found huge productivity gains from using them.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
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
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, 4 Sep. 2025
Figure’s Vision Language Action (VLA) model has enabled the Figure 02 humanoid to take on a new household challenge — loading a dishwasher with strikingly human-like skill.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Regardless of their reasons for doing so, engagement levels are strikingly high among teens and many of them can't pull themselves away.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
The shirt was being worn by a model that looked strikingly like the 27-year-old accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strikingly
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That’s the spirit behind the AI Darwin Awards, which recognize the most spectacularly misguided uses of the technology.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Tahoe is an easy Editors' Choice winner thanks to its flexible customization options, innovative productivity tweaks, and spectacularly uniform look.—
Edward Mendelson,
PC Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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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
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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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“Strikingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strikingly. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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