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Adverb
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That can leave infections insufficiently treated, ultimately fueling the fire of resistance.—
NPR,
NPR,
15 Oct. 2025 -
That anomaly yields a joke or two about Grofield using his acting skills to get into character on the job, but it’s insufficiently developed to add much.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Each said the department's practices are inadequately protecting students.—
Danielle DuClos,
jsonline.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Fueling your body inadequately will leave you feeling dissatisfied and undernourished.—
Jamie Johnson,
Verywell Health,
10 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Originalist justices at the time believed that ruling was wrongly decided.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Yet the wrongly accused, like myself, have no recourse to hold prosecutors accountable.—
Micah Kimball,
Denver Post,
16 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Govt mistakenly letting people out instead of deporting.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Representatives for Fowler Middle School and the Tigard County Police did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment or confirmation as to how exactly the cleaner was mistakenly put on the pretzels.—
Emily Rella,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Worker Laura, who chose to remain anonymous, described how one manager would touch her inappropriately at work.—
Ladan Anoushfar,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
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Sheriff’s officials said that Jaekel also asked one of the children for nude pictures of herself, and each of the four victims witnessed Jaekel inappropriately touching the other female family members.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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The government’s theory echoes earlier criticism from the Justice Department’s 2019 Inspector General report, which found that Comey retained and shared some of those memos improperly, though that report did not recommend criminal prosecution at the time.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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Thermal runaway, or self-heating, can occur without warning in lithium batteries as a result of various factors, including if the battery is damaged, overheated, exposed to water, overcharged or improperly packed, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Without catching it, offensive coaches might have incorrectly predicted the defense would play its typical coverage to match their routes.—
Jourdan Rodrigue,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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The cost estimates are based on federal data that incorrectly categorize Madison Area Technical College as a four-year institution.—
Kelly Meyerhofer,
jsonline.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Unpromisingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpromisingly. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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