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Recent Examples of grossly
The clean tech sector's frenzied growth during Biden-era policy has slowed but, to paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of its demise are grossly exaggerated.
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Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
In 2008, a slight majority of state voters were persuaded by Schwarzenegger’s hard sell and a grossly dishonest official ballot argument to provide just under $10 billion in bond seed money for a $43 billion statewide bullet-train system that they were told would be complete by 2020.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
Tipantuna Quinchiguano, 32, of Minneapolis, reached an agreement with Ramsey County prosecutors, admitting to two counts of criminal vehicular homicide for driving in a grossly negligent manner.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
In the final minutes of UF's 18-16 loss, the Gators gifted USF the first 28 yards of the drive with a pair of costly penalties, the latter of which was grossly shocking.
—Chase Goodbread, The Tuscaloosa News, 10 Sep. 2025
In a lot of places and for a lot of franchises, calling the season opener a must-win would be grossly overreacting.
—Zac Jackson, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Tesla critics say that the stock has become grossly overvalued because of Wall Street’s willingness to buy into Musk’s vision of the future in terms of AI, self-driving vehicles and robots, despite its failures to deliver on past promises along those lines.
—Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
While healthcare broadly has grossly underperformed the market (about 40% to the S&P 500’s doubling) in that time, BMY has been even worse, sitting on about 25% in red ink on a price basis, and a 10% loss even with dividends included.
—Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Just like credit scores today, which are, at best, meaningful heuristics but are grossly overused, the technology sometimes became a substitute for common sense.
—Brian Hamilton, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2025
Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
In 2008, a slight majority of state voters were persuaded by Schwarzenegger’s hard sell and a grossly dishonest official ballot argument to provide just under $10 billion in bond seed money for a $43 billion statewide bullet-train system that they were told would be complete by 2020.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
Tipantuna Quinchiguano, 32, of Minneapolis, reached an agreement with Ramsey County prosecutors, admitting to two counts of criminal vehicular homicide for driving in a grossly negligent manner.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
In the final minutes of UF's 18-16 loss, the Gators gifted USF the first 28 yards of the drive with a pair of costly penalties, the latter of which was grossly shocking.
—Chase Goodbread, The Tuscaloosa News, 10 Sep. 2025
In a lot of places and for a lot of franchises, calling the season opener a must-win would be grossly overreacting.
—Zac Jackson, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Tesla critics say that the stock has become grossly overvalued because of Wall Street’s willingness to buy into Musk’s vision of the future in terms of AI, self-driving vehicles and robots, despite its failures to deliver on past promises along those lines.
—Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
While healthcare broadly has grossly underperformed the market (about 40% to the S&P 500’s doubling) in that time, BMY has been even worse, sitting on about 25% in red ink on a price basis, and a 10% loss even with dividends included.
—Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Just like credit scores today, which are, at best, meaningful heuristics but are grossly overused, the technology sometimes became a substitute for common sense.
—Brian Hamilton, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grossly
Adverb
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Apple is late to the party on implementing WebGL, but not egregiously so.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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In North Carolina, as in other Southern states, newspapers in the Jim Crow era often egregiously exaggerated stories about Black criminality.—
Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Would any self-respecting show really risk insulting the viewer’s intelligence so flagrantly?—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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Truth Teller reporters repeatedly go undercover to nail down relatively trivial scoops, appearing, in the process, to flagrantly violate the Society of Professional Journalists’ ethical guidelines.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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When the little doggy pool doesn't float, their plan fails miserably, and both Mabel and her sister Millie are left having to rethink their strategy.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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The only good thing is that the Dodgers have been failing miserably and somehow the Pads remain in contention.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Grossly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grossly. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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