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Recent Examples of inwardly
April dons her blue Beats headphones, inwardly reciting: Dead inside, dead inside, dead inside.
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Danielle Parker, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2025
And so that was something that actually gave me a lot of inspiration for finding layers and inwardly.
—Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
According to Gilbertsen, brick walls are notorious for absorbing solar heat during the day and then releasing the heat inwardly after sunset.
—Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
Never a fan of this kind of rhetoric—with which she and the rest of the country had been bombarded for years—Michiko inwardly bristled at the anecdote before the running dialogue changed tack to rumors about the new‑type bomb the Americans had just dropped on Hiroshima.
—Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
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Danielle Parker, CBS News, 4 Dec. 2025
And so that was something that actually gave me a lot of inspiration for finding layers and inwardly.
—Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
According to Gilbertsen, brick walls are notorious for absorbing solar heat during the day and then releasing the heat inwardly after sunset.
—Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
Never a fan of this kind of rhetoric—with which she and the rest of the country had been bombarded for years—Michiko inwardly bristled at the anecdote before the running dialogue changed tack to rumors about the new‑type bomb the Americans had just dropped on Hiroshima.
—Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inwardly
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Caleb Elliott, 26, is a former Celina ISD middle school football coach and substitute teacher who is facing multiple state and federal charges tied to secretly recording boys in a Moore Middle School locker room.—
Doug Myers,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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At Free Eden, Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the boutique’s basement after hours with Cherry and Fig.—
Kennedy French,
Variety,
27 Mar. 2026
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Growing up in Hollywood and Hyde Park, among other parts of the city, Mazariegos was intimately familiar with gun and gang violence.—
Noah Goldberg,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2026
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Both sides of the aisle are feeling the pressure to fix a crisis that's intimately affecting many Americans.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
24 Mar. 2026
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The loop will remove thousands of vehicles from surface roads daily and is entirely privately funded, according to a press release.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
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It would be totally privately funded.—
Alysia Burgio,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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The first and rarest category involved sotto voce confessions of personal tree-felling or maiming episodes.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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Like the man himself, the house speaks of quality sotto voce.—
Rachel Davies,
Architectural Digest,
16 Dec. 2025
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“Inwardly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inwardly. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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