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Recent Examples of coldly
Fans of Pawlikowski’s style will feel coldly, cozily at home in how their emotionally stingy relationship plays out.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 May 2026
Lili Reinhart’s coldly overbearing Apple (with lucious, flaming red hair) is their ringleader, Alexandra Shipp’s Fig is a science genius who lost her personality in a swirl of people pleasing, and Victoria Pedretti’s mentally fragile Cherry is Apple’s resident punching bag and fixer-upper project.
—Jada Yuan, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2026
Duvall possessed a Brando-like intensity in the Seventies, whether as the coldly strategic Tom Hagen in the Godfather pictures or as Frank Hackett, the soulless, hotheaded executive in Sidney Lumet’s bruising satire Network.
—Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2026
The pair felt that their competitive careers had been coldly cut short.
—Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 3 Feb. 2026
That focus on efficiency included a coldly logical approach to salary-cap management, and an update of the bruising defense that Belichick had pioneered with 49ers old rivals, the 1980s iteration of the New York Giants.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026
Tatiana, a country girl, falls for our titular misanthrope and makes the foolish decision to write him a letter, only to be coldly rejected.
—Rachel Howard, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2026
His cabinet, meanwhile, conspires to remove their own children from any ballot, before coldly decreeing that kids from the worst performing schools should be sent away with the 456.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
Advertisement Everyone needs to remember that on the issue of Taiwan, China is unlikely to act coldly and rationally if it is pushed into a corner.
—Kerry Brown, Time, 28 Nov. 2025
Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 May 2026
Lili Reinhart’s coldly overbearing Apple (with lucious, flaming red hair) is their ringleader, Alexandra Shipp’s Fig is a science genius who lost her personality in a swirl of people pleasing, and Victoria Pedretti’s mentally fragile Cherry is Apple’s resident punching bag and fixer-upper project.
—Jada Yuan, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2026
Duvall possessed a Brando-like intensity in the Seventies, whether as the coldly strategic Tom Hagen in the Godfather pictures or as Frank Hackett, the soulless, hotheaded executive in Sidney Lumet’s bruising satire Network.
—Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2026
The pair felt that their competitive careers had been coldly cut short.
—Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 3 Feb. 2026
That focus on efficiency included a coldly logical approach to salary-cap management, and an update of the bruising defense that Belichick had pioneered with 49ers old rivals, the 1980s iteration of the New York Giants.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026
Tatiana, a country girl, falls for our titular misanthrope and makes the foolish decision to write him a letter, only to be coldly rejected.
—Rachel Howard, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2026
His cabinet, meanwhile, conspires to remove their own children from any ballot, before coldly decreeing that kids from the worst performing schools should be sent away with the 456.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
Advertisement Everyone needs to remember that on the issue of Taiwan, China is unlikely to act coldly and rationally if it is pushed into a corner.
—Kerry Brown, Time, 28 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coldly
coolly
Adverb
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James handled the disappointment by stepping up and coolly taking charge of the Lakers' offense again.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 May 2026
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Both singers seemed so coolly detached yet their words and melodies were utterly compelling and evoked so much longing.—
Liza Lentini,
SPIN,
8 May 2026
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“Coldly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coldly. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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