as in terribly
to a great degree
I'm mortally certain that I've seen that guy before
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Recent Examples of mortally
Meanwhile, episode one of season three picks up with adult Van (Lauren Ambrose) now staying with Taissa (Tawney Cypress) amid her battle with cancer and the latter’s separation from her wife, but Ambrose played coy about any sort of final destination for her character, mortally or romantically.
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Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
Their closeness deepened when Mahler fell mortally ill.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Investigators didn’t elaborate on what occurred during the encounter before one of the officers fired his gun, mortally wounding the man.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
Maxwell was still fighting the unnamed robber, so Powell ran into the front room shot him again in the chest, mortally wounding him, the feds allege.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
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Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
Their closeness deepened when Mahler fell mortally ill.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Investigators didn’t elaborate on what occurred during the encounter before one of the officers fired his gun, mortally wounding the man.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
Maxwell was still fighting the unnamed robber, so Powell ran into the front room shot him again in the chest, mortally wounding him, the feds allege.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mortally
Adverb
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Other times, particularly when down by eight to 10 points, the Jayhawks did not look terribly driven.—
Andy Frye,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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The law was most infamously used during the terribly wrong internment of Japanese-American citizens during WWII.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
17 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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Their lack of depth was evident against this extremely deep Gators squad.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Mar. 2025
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In some cases, people simply use it as an extremely robust group messaging tool for groups of friends without any games or projects involved.—
Samuel Axon,
ArsTechnica,
27 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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Williams seems to have fundamentally misunderstood the novel, or at the very least to have only a diluted grasp of it.—
Christian Lewis,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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But the Chargers should be adding at least one more quarterback, at the very minimum as a camp body.—
Daniel Popper,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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And there's a little bit of dancing towards the end of this with Sir Anthony Hopkins which was just for sure an incredibly cool experience.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Digital partners that enable end to end supplier integration can have an incredibly powerful impact on supply chain operations for all involved.—
Kate Vitasek,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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Early research tried to pin the deaths on an unlikely culprit: the highly toxic cycad plant and its seeds, which locals ground into flour to make tortillas.—
Shayla Love,
The Atlantic,
23 Mar. 2025
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Each new Indigenous resident-physician comes from communities that are highly underrepresented in medicine and experience disproportionate health disparities.—
Victor A. Lopez-Carmen, MD,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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No victory can meet those standards, and with the benefit of hindsight, even those celebrated for their purity fail the ‘perfect’ test badly.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Social media platforms struggled to deal with abuse The extent of harassment and abuse that Gamergate’s victims experienced — forcing some to leave their homes and go into hiding — showed just how badly tech companies had failed to protect their users, Massanari and others said.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN,
23 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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In the first episode, Lochlan watches Saxon undress and stares a little too long at him naked.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2025
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For the past three years, Pace and her friends have sometimes had to move to the regular pool because the lazy river’s water levels were too low.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
23 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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The combo of that large, efficient head; the dampening factor of the wood handle; and a nice texture at the base of the grip just felt so damned good, strike after strike.—
Joe Jackson,
Outside Online,
20 Nov. 2024
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Still, Moore is pretty damned great — this could almost be her Fly.—
Tom Gliatto,
Peoplemag,
20 Sep. 2024
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“Mortally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mortally. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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