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Recent Examples of validly
If Halligan wasn’t validly appointed, the indictment may be legally void.
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Cassandra Burke Robertson, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
Cassandra Burke Robertson, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for validly
Adverb
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This season, the Mets’ payroll was cited often — again justifiably — in contextualizing their fall to an 83-79 record outside of the postseason.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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So Kiritsis, while his plan is undeniably wacked, is still someone who’s been backed into a corner and is acting out of a fury that has justifiably boiled over.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The state can fairly easily police the requirement that Max be installed on new phones by threatening phone companies that don’t comply or even jailing their executives.—
Justin Sherman,
The Atlantic,
11 Oct. 2025
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Her pregame prayers would start as fairly standard and expected.—
Elise Devlin,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The song, written by the comedians David Baddiel and Frank Skinner with the Lightning Seeds, had been played over the PA system a week earlier against Scotland and had gone down reasonably well.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Fidell questioned how the replacement JAGs could reasonably do their job, when they are exposed to the political rhetoric handed down from Hegseth and the White House.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Despite the glamorous nature of their lives under the spotlight, Hadid and Cooper met under pleasantly ordinary circumstances — at a backyard birthday party for a mutual friend’s child.—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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The flavor is pleasantly real thanks to using real ground vanilla beans.—
Olivia Tarantino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Planning for stability is critical, yet often underrated by early-stage founders who may not know how to forecast costs, time cash flows or structure compensation sensibly.—
Anuradha Gupta,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Although season ticket prices have continued to rise, there is a sense the club has acted sensibly around them and the goodwill generated between the fans and KSE has remained stable.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Could Lightfighter – and the imitators likely to follow – even raise interest in track riding, in a world where modern sportbike performance long ago outpaced what could be exploited prudently on public roads?—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Oct. 2025
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All of which means, adopted prudently, AI is good news for software application development and operations.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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To carry this history in your Halloween costume is a great responsibility, so use it wisely.—
Samantha Allen,
Them.,
10 Oct. 2025
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By dusk, the men in the lake house—men with wives and girlfriends wisely absent—were cracking jokes about his comely dishevelment.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Validly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/validly. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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