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Recent Examples of quite RedBird Capital didn’t quite acquire Paramount Global, but the private equity firm was part of the consortium with Skydance that announced a merger with the company in July. Alex Sherman, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024 Zambra’s new mixed-genre collection, Childish Literature, rendered into English by his longtime translator, Megan McDowell, is quite different. Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2024 It’s been quite a year for Nicola Coughlan, the Derry Girls alum and Bridgerton breakout who finally took center stage in the latter Regency romance series’ third season. Judy Berman, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024 There are two types of great television shows: the kind millions of people are watching and talking about and the ones that never quite break into the larger cultural conversation. Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for quite 
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Adverb
  • While inflation makes the comparisons between Carter and Biden inevitable, several other economic indicators were actually pretty strong under Biden, which wasn't the case for Carter.
    Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Senior Open Competition Quick Recap Despite being in Florida, where a slew of senior pros reside, the Senior Pro/Open draws were pretty sparse for the PPA this weekend.
    Todd Boss, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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  • Related Video Off the Cuff: Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, and Martin Short Talk Favorite Roles, Worst Auditions, and ‘Demure Autumn’ That said, Saturnalia wasn’t totally innocent.
    Gia Yetikyel, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2024
  • To us, as individuals who frequently whip up 12-clove Garlic Chicken Stir-Fry and don’t bat an eye about adding about 48 cloves to our homemade Chili Crisp, Ina Garten’s viral Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic recipe seems totally reasonable.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Dec. 2024
Adverb
  • Despite high awareness, overall usage remains relatively low.
    Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Share [Findings] Psychopaths recommend harsher punishments for homicides, whether accidental or motivated by profit, but exhibit relatively low concern about killing in general.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Adverb
  • The gyro slices check all the boxes to meet my ultimate lazy dinner criteria—starting with the fact that they come fully cooked!
    Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2024
  • However, developing instructional mechanisms that are suitable for students while fully engaging teachers in the educational process remains a challenge.
    Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
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  • Given the drops tend to feature a lot of barter items, this change meant most of them were fairly useless other than selling to traders for a few roubles here and there.
    Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
  • That's fairly obvious, but Seinfeld had a technique.
    Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2025
Adverb
  • Red velvet is perfectly acceptable for Christmas, too.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2024
  • His expertise and resources, combined with Landry’s discipline, systems, and processes, perfectly balanced the creativity that Catch was born from.
    Caroline Tell, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Adverb
  • The book is by no means meant to be prescriptive, but rather serves as a guide for those looking for a starting point.
    Rosana Lai, Glamour, 1 Jan. 2025
  • If receiving personalized coffee picks from a catalogue of nearly 600 coffees from 60 different roasters sounds like your cup of tea (or rather, joe), then MistoBox is the subscription for you.
    Alaina Chou, Bon Appétit, 1 Jan. 2025
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  • Indiana trailed Notre Dame by a score of 17-3 in an utterly dominant first half from the Fighting Irish.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
  • As of this writing, two months past Robert Caro’s 88th birthday, the fifth and concluding volume of this magisterial, utterly necessary biography is still unpublished.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 20 Dec. 2024

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