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Adverb
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Lazary was most impressed with how diligently and unselfishly Haight developed from a top-line scorer into a responsible, third-line, two-way center.—
Joe Smith,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025 -
Nor from showing how Bull unselfishly and painfully gets in the way when preventing Sterling from mounting his beloved Honey.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Aug. 2025
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Our partners over there are looking for everyday heroes, like teachers, first responders, heck, anyone who has selflessly served others.—
Nashville Tennessean,
Nashville Tennessean,
15 Oct. 2025
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This part of the story is a story in itself, but the wars and the result left two-thirds of the recruits dead and rendered Rusty’s appendages useless as he selflessly piloted night and day to fight off every rogue machine.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The hostess seemed to accept this quite cheerfully and, in fact, expect the mess.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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No Mob boss, cheerfully decreeing that an inconvenient witness be rubbed out, could be more resolute.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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For my second builder gel mani, Olive & June graciously set me up with an appointment with manicurist Julieta Martinez.—
Karina Hoshikawa,
Refinery29,
27 Oct. 2025
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The Blue Jackets were outpaced and outclassed, and took their lopsided loss graciously.—
Aaron Portzline,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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In 2019, she was also cordially invited to The White House's 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.—
Emily Weaver,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Parker has always seemed to amiably float along in his retro-futurist space cloud.—
Jon Dolan,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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And Tarrant’s Noa, despite getting more screentime than either of them, is so far more just an amiably clueless straight man for everyone else (but mostly Colette) to project their weirdness onto than a compelling personality of his own.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The scene is absurd to the point of funny—four men in tight quarters with an exposed corpse and yet affably disinterested.—
Diana Arterian
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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Before long, out of the jungle emerge elephants, affably swaying their trunks and dancing to his music.—
Anthony R. Cannella,
Hartford Courant,
13 June 2025
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Chenoweth cheerily waved over the rest of the cast for a group shot, and a handler produced Donegan’s Miss America sash and tiara.—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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But a reporter working on a story like mine would never request or permit an escort—after all, how can someone talk freely about a subject while being observed, however cheerily, by the government?—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
10 Aug. 2025
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“Ungrudgingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungrudgingly. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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