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as in frantically
in a confused and reckless manner
upon being dismissed, the students dashed wildly off in all directions
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as in extremely
to a great degree
trespassers make the recluse wildly angry
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Recent Examples of wildly
Cirque du Soleil and a few other shows emerged as wildly popular theatrical versions of the circus, where highly skilled human performers reign, and among the liveliest examples of this circus reinvention is available at the Chicago Circus & Performing Arts Festival.
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Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Stocks swung wildly for a third consecutive day in response to the coming widespread U.S. tariffs, many of which are set to take effect on Wednesday.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 7 Apr. 2025
When the smiling pontiff was wheeled in, those there cheered wildly.
—Antonia Mortensen, CNN Money, 6 Apr. 2025
The two met in London and, wildly, got matching tattoos together one drunken night, but that was the end of it.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 30 Mar. 2025
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Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Stocks swung wildly for a third consecutive day in response to the coming widespread U.S. tariffs, many of which are set to take effect on Wednesday.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 7 Apr. 2025
When the smiling pontiff was wheeled in, those there cheered wildly.
—Antonia Mortensen, CNN Money, 6 Apr. 2025
The two met in London and, wildly, got matching tattoos together one drunken night, but that was the end of it.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 30 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wildly
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His hands, ordinarily trapped in the pockets of his tracksuit when not frantically presenting tactical instructions or wagging a finger at opposition benches, escaped midway through the second half of his side’s 2-1 win over Brighton & Hove Albion to savour the moment with the Palace supporters.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Workers at the plant tried frantically to contain the damage, by, for example, spraying seawater from fire hoses and rigging up car batteries to supply power.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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Sudden hearing loss can be caused by proximity to an extremely loud sound like an explosion.—
Uma Raja,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2025
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However, experts maintain that voter fraud remains extremely rare, with studies showing minimal evidence of noncitizen voting.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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All of it wild-caught.—
Amy Drew Thompson,
orlandosentinel.com,
14 Aug. 2020
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Our first stop is in a wild-looking stretch 200 yards south of the railroad tracks and State Street.—
Paul A. Smith,
Journal Sentinel,
2 Jan. 2023
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An incredibly realistic short almond nail set that may just have your friends fooled.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
14 Apr. 2025
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McIlroy came out incredibly hot, turning a two-shot deficit to Justin Rose into a three-shot lead in just over an hour.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Apr. 2025
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Peters returns for the Manhattan Theatre Club’s fresh, surprising and very special Broadway production, following its run in Los Angeles.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2025
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If both came together in one fell swoop, Djokovic would probably retire a very happy man.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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To Graydon Carter, a founder and coeditor of Air Mail and former editor of Vanity Fair, all of this seems terribly unfair.—
Nathan King,
Architectural Digest,
17 Apr. 2025
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Something would have to go terribly wrong for the Yankees to give up on the 2025 season.—
Chris Kirschner,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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For a generation of music-and-fashion obsessives, Williams, 52, is revered as the original hip-hop eccentric: highly expressive, unapologetically audacious, unafraid to flout menswear conventions, especially the hypermasculine tropes ascribed to rap music.—
Chioma Nnadi,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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Things that people think are morally abnormal – aberrant behavior, transgressions, violations of their most sacred values – are viewed as highly threatening and necessary to shut down, with force if necessary.—
Jen Cole Wright,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2025
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Many more children were affected by the bombing, too.—
Jenni Carlson,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Adam Wharton falls into this category too and for that reason completes my midfield.—
Adam Crafton,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Wildly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wildly. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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