1
as in expensively
in a luxurious manner
we were staying at the Plaza Hotel in New York and living rather grandly
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as in honorably
in a manner befitting a person of the highest character and ideals
had grandly offered to pay the entire cost of the Christmas party at the children's hospital
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And that's what law enforcement does and the first responder community writ large does every single day.—
Steve Inskeep,
NPR,
15 Jan. 2025 -
Additionally, employers lose about $1.47 million daily in productivity and revenue while society writ large loses another $1.34 billion each day in quality-of-life costs experienced by gun violence victims and their families.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
16 Dec. 2024
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In the process, Hardenberg gives us a richly detailed yet very accessible history of how over five centuries, the concept of measuring mean sea level was a painstaking process that advanced in fits and starts.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Welles’s exquisite, richly cynical adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel about a turn-of-the-century family unwilling to change with the times was famously snatched from Welles’s hands by RKO, re-edited and completed with a new ending.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
22 Jan. 2025
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One clip, captured from the Turks and Caicos Islands, shows the rocket disintegrating in a blaze of light high above the horizon.—
Tom Howarth,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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In October 2024, Blue Origin completed a launch and landing of an uncrewed flight test for its next New Shepard spacecraft, which will one day take humans on suborbital trips high above Earth.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Grandly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandly. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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