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Adverb
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And yet, distressingly, this early stage is too often where the lists of possible awards contenders start to get narrowed down.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
16 Sep. 2025 -
Advertisement Opioid addiction is distressingly common in nearly every contact and combat sport, but Kerr was isolated from the endemic abuse of painkillers in the industry.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Algren, stung by Beauvoir’s independence, treated her miserably.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
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The decoy tactic failed miserably, says Zutterman.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
2 Oct. 2025
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the conservative nonprofit American Action Forum, has watched glumly as Republicans have drifted away from their small-government traditions.—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
19 Oct. 2025
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All the parts fit well in this sometimes surreal, sometimes darkly humorous journey into the crumbling mind of a stressed woman.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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That, in a sense, is the story of motherhood, and what Mary Bronstein’s new film captures with bruising, darkly funny precision.—
Elissa Suh,
Vogue,
10 Oct. 2025
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What at first appears to be a run-of-the-mill trauma drama about a family dealing with the eldest child’s anorexia nervosa gradually evolves into something odder and more original, even blackly comic, in Ungrateful Beings.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
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Look pessimistically, and perhaps the inexperience is too much of a barrier.—
Jake Ciely,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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O’Farrell’s words skip lightly on some pages, then pace with anxiety, then finally trudge along despairingly.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Drearily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drearily. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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