temperately

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Adverb
  • In line with our standard procedures, Lilly Global Patient Safety thoroughly assessed the individual report, which was submitted within days of commercial availability, and determined it was not reasonably related to Foundayo.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 4 May 2026
  • My attention was reasonably high.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 3 May 2026
Adverb
  • Venus Venus hangs at practically the same height, moderately low in the west-northwest during evening twilight throughout the month of May.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 2 May 2026
  • Associated Risks of Carpet Beetles Though that information may sound, well, moderately horrifying, carpet beetles pose no potential harm to you personally.
    Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 1 May 2026
Adverb
  • Somehow, the shameless concept of tanking has become an acceptably mainstream idea like destination weddings and the Paleo diet.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2026
  • One-on-one gatherings are my preference, but no more than a group of maybe four people at a time would be acceptably comfortable for me.
    R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 28 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • Mellencamp grew up modestly but comfortably in the idyllic town of Seymour, Indiana, the son of a mother who was an artist and nascent beauty queen, and a father who worked a white-collar job with a local electrical contracting firm.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • In a pilot trial involving 16 women with preterm preeclampsia, researchers found that filtering out a protein called sFlt-1 from the pregnant women’s blood was both safe and could modestly reduce their blood pressure.
    Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • It should be noted that a tree or any other plant, for that matter, does not stand much of a chance in the long term where the soil drains inadequately.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Juries in the two trials determined that Meta inadequately policed its site, putting kids in harm’s way.
    Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 29 Mar. 2026
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“Temperately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/temperately. Accessed 9 May. 2026.

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