as in carefully
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Adverb
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No one stumbled into creating a billion dollar company, gingerly broke a world record, or cautiously planned and lived their peak life.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025 -
The grainy footage shows an approximately 25-pound bobcat gingerly walking across a log to return to its python stash.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
19 May 2025
Adverb
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The festival was deliberately planned for the barren weeks in June after college students left and before the summer concert and festival season kicked in.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
25 May 2025
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Are people allowed to observe that the literary world is deliberately sidelining a certain demographic of writer -- and to do something about it?—
Michael Washburn,
National Review,
25 May 2025
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“Formally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/formally. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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