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Adverb
But Tom was never that interested in jigsaw puzzles. Korin Miller, SELF, 12 Feb. 2025 Country star Ballerini, meanwhile, had served as a mentor before and filled in for coach Kelly Clarkson, but this is her inaugural season as a coach — with a spinning chair, that is. Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2025 Indeed, there is typically a market correction – that is, a 10% decline from the highs – once a year , according to Bank of America. Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025 Because the works are made on paper with pastel, dealers could feel justified in lowering his notoriously high prices, relatively speaking, that is. The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 3 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for that
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Adverb
  • Older folks tend to be the most at risk, with about 700 people 65 and older dying so far this year from the common virus.
    Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Curry scored 20 points in the Warriors’ 132-108 win over the Sacramento Kings, in doing so becoming the 21st player in NBA history – and first Golden State player – to score 20 or more points in 700 games.
    Ben Morse, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Pressed further on potentially hiring a general manager last week, Davis declined to provide further details.
    Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The situation has sparked legal challenges, confusion within agencies and further scrutiny over Musk's role in the federal government under President Donald Trump.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Next month, the Academy will dutifully hand out Oscars to an array of very deserving, very human winners.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Prior to the constructs of DEI, there was very little alternatives or options for women to have a fair and equal chance to succeed in the communities or in higher education in general.
    Leila Fadel, NPR, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The Gorge portrays the story of two professional operatives, played by Teller and Anya Taylor Joy, working on opposite sides of a gorge.
    Arabella Hau, People.com, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Indiana has taken the opposite strategy of Illinois: Braun signed his own executive order reflecting and supporting the president’s clampdown, quoting directly from Trump several times.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Bacteria pneumonia can spread to the bloodstream and cause sepsis, which is extremely dangerous and can be quickly fatal.
    Katia Hetter, CNN, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Due to the increasing pollution in the world’s oceans, natural pearls are becoming extremely elusive—even still, according to Sotheby’s, the majority of natural saltwater pearls were harvested 100 years ago.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Brendon Thorne | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Reserve Bank of Australia on Tuesday cut benchmark interest rates for the first time in over four years, finally joining ranks with other major global central banks, as softening inflation allows room for easing policy.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2025
  • She was identified as a person of interest in other murders as well, including the murder of Curtis Lind, a landlord in Vallejo, California, who was stabbed to death three days before the Vermont shooting.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Those are really very interesting itineraries that are still very popular.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
  • There’s also a really fun supporting ensemble, including Zack Fox and Sunny Suljic.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • If the two galaxies are aligned just right, the light from the farther galaxy forms a ring around the nearer one.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2025
  • How fast these farther galaxies are receding from us (which is easily read off from their color) divided by their distances gives H0.
    Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2024

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