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Recent Examples of traumatically
Hopefully just not as traumatically — although Holly’s already had a slightly traumatic childhood.
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Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for traumatically
Adverb
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Perhaps most disturbingly, the research lab’s satellite images have documented activity consistent with the mass burning of human corpses.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Dec. 2025
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Rhys’ Nile is disturbingly intense, yet can’t match the sheer oddity that made Durst both so compelling to watch and so believable as a killer.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
13 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Denver Public Schools has not returned to pre-pandemic levels of achievement and, alarmingly, has no clear plan to get there.—
Elaine Gantz Berman,
Denver Post,
25 Oct. 2025
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Delinquencies, defaults, and repossessions have shot up in recent years and look alarmingly similar to trends that were apparent before the Great Recession.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The unwanted babies suffer horribly.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
4 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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There is a curious absence of any patience in exploring the forces shaping their unsettlingly growing worldview.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2026
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The book blends reportage, moral inquiry, and political analysis in a way that still feels unsettlingly contemporary fifty-four years after it was published.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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The data center industry does not have a terribly good answer for this, except that their 83° sun-synchronous orbit is much less crowded than equatorial ones, meaning a lower risk of collisions.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Jan. 2026
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Polls, however, suggest the bill is not terribly popular with voters, which has left Republicans saying the White House must do a better job of selling it.—
Ryan Mancini,
The Hill,
31 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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The back end of the bullpen is stout, yet the lineup is dreadfully short.—
Stephen J. Nesbitt,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Free speech has become a major liability in a disgustingly litigious society.—
Jesse Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
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These include those who disgustingly celebrated the murder of Brian Thompson and all but beatified his alleged assassin, and those who made light of and mocked the attack on Pelosi’s family and the Minnesota lawmakers.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The running game is a mess, Carson Wentz is often running for his life, and the defense proved distressingly vulnerable to big plays in last weekend’s 28-22 loss to Philadelphia.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
23 Oct. 2025
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And yet, distressingly, this early stage is too often where the lists of possible awards contenders start to get narrowed down.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Traumatically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traumatically. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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