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Adverb
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Most of my clients - small and mid-sized business owners - are watching this technology warily.—
Gene Marks,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025 -
Mackenize singles out a Dari-speaking immigrant named Rahim (Elham Ehsas) and his elderly parents as the residents warily pour out of a nearby apartment building, knowing that audiences’ imaginations (and biases) will start to suggest how this character might relate to the bigger picture.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Adam asks Conrad to take care of his brother, and Conrad hesitantly agrees.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Fans chanted for Bayley as Lyra stared at her incredulously.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Carolyn responds incredulously while showing a sign of disgust on her face.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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Lines of hundreds of guests snaked around the inside of the department store (which takes up an entire city block in Manhattan), with onlookers snapping photos quizzically.—
Anika Reed,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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Daedone looked at me quizzically.—
Thessaly La Force,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Guardedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guardedly. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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