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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
This commitment to less information is wildly counterproductive.
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Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2025
The essence of Mars is wildly passionate, but don’t let its lust for life fool you.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
That doesn’t mean Soderbergh’s exercise in technical restraints and goofy but wildly entertaining suspense is disposable, though, by any means.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
The firm’s stock price saw wildly volatile moves last week, up by as much as 77% on Tuesday and by another 120% on Wednesday.
—Ryan Browne, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2025
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Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2025
The essence of Mars is wildly passionate, but don’t let its lust for life fool you.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
That doesn’t mean Soderbergh’s exercise in technical restraints and goofy but wildly entertaining suspense is disposable, though, by any means.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
The firm’s stock price saw wildly volatile moves last week, up by as much as 77% on Tuesday and by another 120% on Wednesday.
—Ryan Browne, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wildly
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Every year around this time, as college basketball casuals start frantically Googling for Cinderellas, bracket breakdown marathons blanket TV airwaves and CBS’ Seth Davis predicts his fourth double-digit seed to advance to the Sweet 16, an upset favorite begins to emerge.—
Kels Dayton,
Hartford Courant,
17 Mar. 2025
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Rally-goers were seen in footage on social media dispersing frantically during a 15-minute silence that was being observed during the protest.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
17 Mar. 2025
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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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In some cases, people simply use it as an extremely robust group messaging tool for groups of friends without any games or projects involved.—
Samuel Axon,
ArsTechnica,
27 Mar. 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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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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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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That was a very frustrating situation, but part of the game.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
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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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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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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Before his death a few years ago, McKay unearthed lots of other important connections, too, many involving groups.—
Leila Sloman,
WIRED,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Wildly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wildly. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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