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Recent Examples of reluctantly
Watch on Deadline To do this Sonic and team must reluctantly join forces with Robotnik who has seen his life go to hell after being soundly defeated by them in the second film.
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Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024
After reluctantly being forced to reunite with Detective Connie Edwards (Melissa McCarthy), Phil and his partner are forced to overcome their differences and solve the case.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
By late July, Mr. Biden had dropped out of the presidential race, reluctantly.
—Katie Rogers, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2024
Even the small batch of cost-benefit analyses that are reluctantly performed fail to reflect the true scale of regulatory intervetion.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024
After reluctantly being forced to reunite with Detective Connie Edwards (Melissa McCarthy), Phil and his partner are forced to overcome their differences and solve the case.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
By late July, Mr. Biden had dropped out of the presidential race, reluctantly.
—Katie Rogers, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2024
Even the small batch of cost-benefit analyses that are reluctantly performed fail to reflect the true scale of regulatory intervetion.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Reluctantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reluctantly. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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