1
as in extremely
to a great degree
the team has vastly improved in the course of the season
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2
as in highly
to a large extent or degree
vastly underestimated the cost of advertising the new product
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Recent Examples of vastly
Falling off a motorcycle is vastly different to crashing one of these things, because that torquey aircraft motor is attached to a lethal propeller and has no kill switch and can commit untold carnage from a minor mishap.
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Mike Hanlon, New Atlas, 18 Mar. 2025
Maxim Timchenko has a warning for any European politicians weighing a return of Russian pipelined gas: the true costs vastly exceed the sticker price.
—Ben Geman, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
Sign In Runway By Irene Kim March 17, 2025
Fashion month takes us from New York to London to Milan to Paris, four cities with identities of their own, yet among those vastly different places, trends can always be observed.
—Irene Kim, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2025
At the heart of this debate is not just hostility to social justice but an even more fundamental question: Does America want to be a unified country or merely a confederation of states with vastly different rules, standards, and rights?
—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
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Mike Hanlon, New Atlas, 18 Mar. 2025
Maxim Timchenko has a warning for any European politicians weighing a return of Russian pipelined gas: the true costs vastly exceed the sticker price.
—Ben Geman, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
Sign In Runway By Irene Kim March 17, 2025
Fashion month takes us from New York to London to Milan to Paris, four cities with identities of their own, yet among those vastly different places, trends can always be observed.
—Irene Kim, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2025
At the heart of this debate is not just hostility to social justice but an even more fundamental question: Does America want to be a unified country or merely a confederation of states with vastly different rules, standards, and rights?
—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vastly
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Their lack of depth was evident against this extremely deep Gators squad.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Mar. 2025
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Probst then allowed Joe to help Eva calm her nerves and re-center herself, before the host himself became extremely emotional from her story.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
27 Mar. 2025
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Early research tried to pin the deaths on an unlikely culprit: the highly toxic cycad plant and its seeds, which locals ground into flour to make tortillas.—
Shayla Love,
The Atlantic,
23 Mar. 2025
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Each new Indigenous resident-physician comes from communities that are highly underrepresented in medicine and experience disproportionate health disparities.—
Victor A. Lopez-Carmen, MD,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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And there's a little bit of dancing towards the end of this with Sir Anthony Hopkins which was just for sure an incredibly cool experience.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Digital partners that enable end to end supplier integration can have an incredibly powerful impact on supply chain operations for all involved.—
Kate Vitasek,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Jiwa’s identity as a South Asian and Muslim woman also greatly influences her fashion decisions, with her hijab often pulling all of her outfits together.—
Athena Sobhan,
People.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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In general, leasing deals with tenants can vary greatly depending on the duration of the lease, the square-footage being leased, whether the tenant is a small, local vendor or a national retailer.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
21 Mar. 2025
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Williams seems to have fundamentally misunderstood the novel, or at the very least to have only a diluted grasp of it.—
Christian Lewis,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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But the Chargers should be adding at least one more quarterback, at the very minimum as a camp body.—
Daniel Popper,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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Other times, particularly when down by eight to 10 points, the Jayhawks did not look terribly driven.—
Andy Frye,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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The law was most infamously used during the terribly wrong internment of Japanese-American citizens during WWII.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
17 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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And Laurie pretty much tells her all of that, much to Kate’s horror.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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Still, the backlash against diversity persists — in video games and on a much grander scale, in President Donald Trump’s elimination of federal DEI programs.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN,
23 Mar. 2025
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In the first episode, Lochlan watches Saxon undress and stares a little too long at him naked.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2025
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For the past three years, Pace and her friends have sometimes had to move to the regular pool because the lazy river’s water levels were too low.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Vastly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vastly. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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