ruly

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruly
Adjective
  • Although some leagues were more amiable to streaming since the last time DFL negotiated media rights, the media and tech landscape has changed dramatically in the last six years.
    Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The Half Moon Bay weigh-off had started in 1974, when the California town barely edged out Circleville, Ohio, in an amiable contest for the fictitious title of pumpkin capital of the world.
    Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Later, the film’s producers refused to grant the movie’s art and name to the paperback version of the book — as is customary, theoretically enhancing the promotion of both properties — which incensed the usually docile Mezrich.
    Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The paintings, yes, thwart the racist stereotype that Asian women are meek and docile, but that’s not a statement Ba is trying to make.
    Ann Binlot, ARTnews.com, 5 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • This should make the engine more tractable throughout the rev range, and that’s not taking into consideration an optional race exhaust setup—for track use only, nudge nudge—that bumps those figures up to 126 horsepower and 73 lb-ft of torque, while shaving another 10 pounds.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • LLMs are much less tractable, much less reliable black boxes.
    Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 17 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Even so, our exercises did not suggest that any authoritarian would command a uniformly obedient federal workforce.
    Barton Gellman, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • In this election year, there is nothing more slavishly obedient than indifference.
    Robert Repino, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2024
Adjective
  • Tops don’t have to be hard, masc, and tall — and bottoms don’t have to be submissive, small, or fem!
    María Saldana, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Or would restrictions effectively declare Asians and Hispanics to be undesirables, forcing them to endure a painful, submissive half assimilation into a white mainstream that would never quite accept them?
    Noah Smith, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2018
Adjective
  • But on this day’s errand, in the New Pioneer produce aisle, Greenwell could be mistaken for someone a little more quotidian: an obliging, slightly flustered midwestern husband.
    Sarah Thankam Mathews, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
  • Driver and Adelaide Clemens (as Essie) in Hold On to Me Darling Photo: Julieta Cervantes Buzzing around McCrane’s many affairs, both personal and professional, is his pathologically obliging and ever-present assistant, Jimmy.
    Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Unlike the deferential business judgement rule, the entire fairness standard of review is an especially tough one for boards since the court will examine both procedural and substantive fairness.
    Priya Cherian Huskins, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Although South Korean President Yoon promised to back Biden’s Indo-Pacific strategy and to be less deferential toward China, his foreign minister, Park Jin, pledged in Beijing to support regional and global cooperation.
    Michael Green, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
Adjective
  • By avoiding fines and penalties and staying ahead as a compliant finance expert, leaders can ensure regulatory adherence and maintain industry credibility.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The Browns further maintain that even if their constitutional arguments fall short, they should be deemed compliant with the Modell law.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 Oct. 2024

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“Ruly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruly. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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