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Recent Examples of helpfully
While helpfully adding their own, for context.
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Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
Vance helpfully points to the Scranton Chamber of Commerce website, which keeps a list of every business that’s closed in the last ten years.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Only 29% bothered to respond, and NYCHA helpfully lumped the demolition answers together to claim 57% support, triumphantly branding the whole charade as a vote.
—Layla Law-Gisiko, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025
LeMessurier’s firm helpfully provided her with drawings, plans and figures.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Thus, delusional disorders can be helpfully typified and researched by the particular delusion that is being expressed.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Five summers ago, we were told to wear masks, compelled to take vaccines, prohibited from looking at certain statues (which were helpfully torn down), and scolded for enjoying any movie or TV show that presented law enforcement officers empathetically or humanely.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
Vance helpfully points to the Scranton Chamber of Commerce website, which keeps a list of every business that’s closed in the last ten years.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Only 29% bothered to respond, and NYCHA helpfully lumped the demolition answers together to claim 57% support, triumphantly branding the whole charade as a vote.
—Layla Law-Gisiko, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025
LeMessurier’s firm helpfully provided her with drawings, plans and figures.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Thus, delusional disorders can be helpfully typified and researched by the particular delusion that is being expressed.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Five summers ago, we were told to wear masks, compelled to take vaccines, prohibited from looking at certain statues (which were helpfully torn down), and scolded for enjoying any movie or TV show that presented law enforcement officers empathetically or humanely.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for helpfully
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Which is to say that All the President’s Men is a movie about process, and Redford, in one of his most enduring and finely tuned screen roles, holds its center—with Hoffman giving human form to that slow, ticking momentum.—
K. Austin Collins,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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Turn mixer on medium or pulse food processor until chicken is finely shredded.—
Ann Taylor Pittman,
Southern Living,
12 Sep. 2025
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Osman Yousefzada’s Possession I at Cartwright Hall, Bradford Osman Yousefzada’s striking sculptural work Possession I is positioned magnificently outside Cartwright Hall in Bradford, the venue of the 2025 Turner Prize exhibition.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Beating the Reds in a normal ballpark when left-hander Nick Lodolo pitched magnificently doesn’t count any more than a victory at Coors Field.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Miami happily obliged and thrived.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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The actor is happily married to his longtime wife, Tomasina Tate.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
12 Sep. 2025
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Next morning at breakfast Amby complains grandly of his soreness.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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But the film’s wild, icy and rural visuals, captured grandly by cinematographer Tyson Perkins, are astonishingly gorgeous to meditate in.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Hilaria sweetly wrote in her caption.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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Law and Coan were captured sitting at a table together inside the gala, with the actor leaning over at one point with a smile to tell his wife something and sweetly caressing her back.—
Jen Juneau,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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As a result, some of the winners were delightfully surprising.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
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The Starbucks version of the drink is delightfully simple yet indulgent.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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That shows Davidson freaking out about meeting the queen in order to accept his MBE, finding his inner strength with the help of Dottie to entering the grand hall with a vulgar outburst and charmingly apologizing.—
Carole Horst,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2025
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But these charmingly casual houses, many of them centuries old, come with a rigid spatial order that is antithetical to modern lifestyles.—
Joseph Giovannini,
Architectural Digest,
4 Sep. 2025
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After eating the berry and taking another sip, the same drink suddenly tastes different, with the rim’s citrus tang softening into a cocktail that's pleasantly sweet with notes of berry.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The crunchy texture of lettuce may be pleasantly satiating.—
Barbie Cervoni,
Verywell Health,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Helpfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helpfully. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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