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as in darkly
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as in somberly
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Adverb
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Judge Cannone said the goal was to better understand evidence being discussed in the case which centers heavily around the state in which O’Keefe was discovered and how Read reacted.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2025 -
Two years earlier, local women’s team FC Lyon had officially become a part of the Olympique Lyonnais organisation, and Jean-Michel Aulas, overall club president at the time, invested heavily.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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The seller was unhappily mulling it when another offer emerged, then another.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
7 Apr. 2025
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The actor Steve Coogan plays Tom Michell, a teacher from southern England who is unhappily assigned to an upper-class boy’s school in 1970s Argentina.—
Glenn Kenny,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Bleakly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleakly. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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