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Adverb
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The irony was unmistakable: a man who barely spoke in interviews, who shrank from the stage, whose music sidestepped every commercial instinct of his time, was now the soundtrack to a car commercial.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
5 July 2025 -
The Dow Jones industrial average barely cracked 1,000 that year, versus its current level of 44,000-plus.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
4 July 2025
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The kernel of the script imagined Ruth’s movements through her longtime home for the final time—a marvelous, minutely observed sequence that opens the film—and then her new home for the first time.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
20 June 2025
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The downtown side of the bridge is also minutely taller than the church side, leading to some overconfident drivers lodging themselves on the other end.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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The menu is brief and, on paper, somewhat predictable: a tiramisu, Italian cookies, an ice-cream sundae.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
6 July 2025
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Welcome to difficult-to-reach Nordkapp (North Cape), a magnificent — albeit somewhat extreme — antidote for travelers looking to escape the summer heat back home while visiting a majestic landmark that has been challenging explorers, royalty and tourists for centuries.—
Dan Fellner,
AZCentral.com,
6 July 2025
Adverb
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These people, the ones who insist on trespassing in what is actually our backyard, who started this fight have to pass several scarcely populated public beach areas to get to our property.—
Brie Stimson , Larry Fink,
FOXNews.com,
14 July 2025
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The arrangement, Shane briskly insists, is strictly temporary: There’s little love lost between two siblings who, having grown up years apart under separate roofs, scarcely know each other at all.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
12 July 2025
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Police arrested a man who allegedly tried to carry almost $3 million worth of drugs in his suitcase in Atlanta.—
Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
14 July 2025
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When Palmer Luckey began tinkering in a camper in his parents’ driveway, the kind of rapid innovation that is flourishing in Ukraine was almost unthinkable in the American defense establishment.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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