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as in completely
to a full extent or degree
are you quite sure you have permission to go?
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as in pretty
to some degree or extent
we camped quite near Mount Rushmore
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Recent Examples of quite
While their poetry was quite distinct, the voices, in prose and sometimes in person, of the four male poets in the group in particular, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, could be uncannily similar.
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Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
YouTube What To Know On Wednesday, Swift quite literally broke the internet when her New Heights interview was released.
—Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
But as tariff uncertainty has declined, the rebound in mergers-and-acquisitions activity and the thawing of the initial public offering market has made its bankers quite busy.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2025
Weaver has also dealt with injuries this season and has not been quite as sharp.
—Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Aug. 2025
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Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
YouTube What To Know On Wednesday, Swift quite literally broke the internet when her New Heights interview was released.
—Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
But as tariff uncertainty has declined, the rebound in mergers-and-acquisitions activity and the thawing of the initial public offering market has made its bankers quite busy.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2025
Weaver has also dealt with injuries this season and has not been quite as sharp.
—Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quite
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Temperatures and humidity will begin to increase on Thursday, reaching the upper 80s which is pretty typical for mid-August in the metro.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
14 Aug. 2025
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The tornado later was determined to be at least an EF-3, pretty strong, a killer.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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McBride is able to capture the often indistinguishable line between agony and pleasure, the way one can be known totally and known not at all from one moment to the next.—
Book Marks
August 28,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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That was just a totally different recording procedure.—
Pat Blashill,
Rolling Stone,
28 Aug. 2025
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By forcing team members to attempt new ways of speaking with and relating to one another, a manager can break down and improve team cohesion relatively quickly.—
Rebecca Fraser-Thill,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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South Park also went relatively easy on George W. Bush (though Parker and Stone lampooned him in a separate series called That’s My Bush).—
Chris Yogerst,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Aug. 2025
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Still, the largest enterprise customers will likely take much longer to fully transition.—
Steve McDowell,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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After the fire is fully contained, the next step is to control it.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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DeVille suggests—quite fairly—that indie’s poptimist turn was sneaky snobbery, reactions against the popularity of groups like Mumford & Sons.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
29 Aug. 2025
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But there is no doubt that his downturn has been fairly concerning.—
Matthew Schmidt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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Each bite of this classic comfort food delivers taste and textural elements that perfectly compliment each other.—
Robin Miller,
AZCentral.com,
23 Aug. 2025
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In the end, Powell managed to thread the needle perfectly and, as a result, all three major averages are rallying at least 1.5%.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
22 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Some, called rogue planets, don't even orbit a star, but rather are floating through the cosmos untethered.—
Eric Lagatta,
AZCentral.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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That being said, these two companies don't have high yields because of terribly large payouts, which do significantly increase each year with earnings, but rather weakness in their stocks.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
29 Aug. 2025
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And Just Like That left us with felt, sadly and utterly disappointingly, far more one-dimensional.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
15 Aug. 2025
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Kudos to Kan-Kan for making movie-going utterly pleasant.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Quite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quite. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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