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Recent Examples of crazily
That seems like a crazily low number of songs.
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Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Guessing crazily at the future, the gambler is granted, briefly, the gift of now.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Guessing crazily at the future, the gambler is granted, briefly, the gift of now.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crazily
Adverb
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In experiments done decades ago, scientists were able to show that if the sound of running water was played from a tape deck, beavers would try desperately to accumulate wood around the sound.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Sep. 2025
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So, too, do these attempts reveal how desperately empathy is needed in medicine—an empathy that is not transactional but mutual.—
Rachel Pearson,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Hydroplaning is when a vehicle starts uncontrollably sliding on wet roads.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
17 Sep. 2025
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Staffers frantically searched for updates on his condition.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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Some are stockpiling ingredients, while others are frantically seeking alternative suppliers.—
Phil Lempert,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Cineplex has jumped on the entertainment experience by opening Cinéma Cineplex Royalmount, a brand-new theater in Montreal which boasts the company’s first ever Quebec location of The Rec Room — a wildly popular concept that combines arcade games and cinema.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
16 Sep. 2025
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The process this year has taken a wildly different trajectory.—
Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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But then, given how frenetically thrashing the entire tariff and trade policy and strategy have been in practice, expecting a predictable rollout and impact was probably unrealistic on everyone’s part.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Even with its two hour-plus running time, Franz feels dense but nimble, Tomasz Naumiuk’s cinematography often in motion, or static as the characters flow frenetically from room to room within the frame, especially in the Kafka family home.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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That’s the way Fleur looks at Julian in real life too — adoring and feverishly in love, so when Fleur announces that the pair are getting married over dinner with friends, everyone responds with joy and delight.—
Jourdain Searles,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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Even his detractors can agree on that, although the cinephiles who feverishly pursued this particular grail may not support this resolution.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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On its face, recklessly slashing the federal funds rate by 150-bps would escalate long-term interest rates.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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The 19-year-old made two deliberately wrong choices — to drive recklessly and to disregard police actions, Johnson said.—
Kelli Arseneau,
jsonline.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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William falls immediately, madly in love with Agnes.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
30 Aug. 2025
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Not just the Prime Minister upstairs, but the conspiracy theorist who runs the cafe three floors below, the man who repairs the lift that never works, the madly ambitious ‘advisors’ fighting for office space in cupboards.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Crazily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crazily. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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