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Recent Examples of wearily
If the power comes flickering on for a few precious hours in the middle of the night, that’s when Cubans now rise to wearily cook and iron clothes.
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Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
One wearily pushes hers in a creaky pram.
—Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
And so, Vladimir and Estragon wearily choose to continue waiting, day in and day out.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 Sep. 2025
Shirley Phinzee blinked wearily under the fluorescent lights of a Miami Wendy’s.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
Their two young kids walked wearily throughout the car.
—Paulina Czupryna, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Harry could be described as a counterpart on the other side of the law from John Stone, the wearily disheveled attorney played by Turturro in HBO’s riveting limited series, The Night Of — even if Harry has a greater appreciation for good tailoring.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
One wearily pushes hers in a creaky pram.
—Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
And so, Vladimir and Estragon wearily choose to continue waiting, day in and day out.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 Sep. 2025
Shirley Phinzee blinked wearily under the fluorescent lights of a Miami Wendy’s.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
Their two young kids walked wearily throughout the car.
—Paulina Czupryna, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Harry could be described as a counterpart on the other side of the law from John Stone, the wearily disheveled attorney played by Turturro in HBO’s riveting limited series, The Night Of — even if Harry has a greater appreciation for good tailoring.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wearily
Adverb
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In one casually stunning composition, Ion looms in the foreground over the rooftops of Cluj in the background.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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Before the huge climactic shoot-out — there’s always a huge climactic shoot-out — someone casually goes through a location and places all sorts of extra guns throughout the space, hiding them in refrigerators and under pool tables and whatnot.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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The rooms Each room here channels a new type of contemporary African design—there are no throwaway uses of Ankara cloth to lazily signal to the continent.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Mar. 2026
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The shallow freshwater coursed lazily among the sawgrass, the water stretching from the Atlantic Coastal Ridge to the east to the highlands of what is now part of the Big Cypress National Preserve to the west.—
Amy Green,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Melbourne, Australia — An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun's rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Her game is languidly devastating.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
New York Times,
31 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Lincoln-Way East started sluggishly, to say the least, and trailed 7-4 after one quarter before Brown entered the game and scored seven points in the second quarter.—
Steve Millar,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2026
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Cold weather slows the chemical reactions in these batteries, with the lithium ions moving more sluggishly through the electrolyte liquid.—
Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Wearily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wearily. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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