sweepingly

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Recent Examples of sweepingly Even more sweepingly, slavery itself must end, everywhere, immediately, and forever. Akhil Reed Amar, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sweepingly
Adverb
  • These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Yet most of those families are still systematically behind due to racial inequality, and Black families, of all kinds, are facing discrimination that leads to higher suspension and expulsion rates in school, lower on-time high school completion rates, and not enough financial resources.
    Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Water plants thoroughly and apply 1 to 2 inches of mulch, leaving a small ring around the trunk free of mulch.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The soft sweetness throughout was thoroughly enjoyable, and that unexpected belting at the end left us curious to hear what else this man can offer.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 29 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Hundreds of them were on hand this week to primp and pamper more than 2,500 cows competing at what is widely considered to be the Westminster Dog Show of the cattle world.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Abe – widely seen as Japan’s last stable leader, having ruled for nearly nine years – was assassinated in 2022.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Sweepingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sweepingly. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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