as in easily
without difficulty
handily whipped up a fluffy meringue and spread it on the pie
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Recent Examples of handily
After several weeks of frankly listless attention-grabbing, Donald Trump won his second straight poll handily, with 39.5 percent.
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George Kalogerakis, Air Mail, 24 May 2025
Macri handily beat Cristina in 2017, only to be forced to seek an IMF bailout in 2018 and barely made it out of the Casa Rosada alive.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, her poodle-curly blonde hairdo and bedroom eyes handily evoke Julie Christie in Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the OG revisionist western and just the sort of touchstone this film needs to conjure in order make its intentions clear.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2025
While there are plenty of nods to the old, there are also plenty of modern touches, such as the reading lights, USB plugs and room controls handily built into the beds.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
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George Kalogerakis, Air Mail, 24 May 2025
Macri handily beat Cristina in 2017, only to be forced to seek an IMF bailout in 2018 and barely made it out of the Casa Rosada alive.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, her poodle-curly blonde hairdo and bedroom eyes handily evoke Julie Christie in Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the OG revisionist western and just the sort of touchstone this film needs to conjure in order make its intentions clear.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2025
While there are plenty of nods to the old, there are also plenty of modern touches, such as the reading lights, USB plugs and room controls handily built into the beds.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handily
Adverb
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Soto easily scored from second and Alonso’s headfirst slide barely got him in before Hunter Goodman’s tag at the plate.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
7 June 2025
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The 21-year-old’s creations are easily identifiable with a delightfully strange face that followers have come to adore.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
7 June 2025
Adverb
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By comparison, Scheffler and playing partners Viktor Hovland and Collin Morikawa might have gotten off easy.—
Will Graves,
Chicago Tribune,
14 June 2025
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But the Oilers, who are essentially fighting for their life, weren’t going to go down easy.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
13 June 2025
Adverb
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This will be a win for taxpayers as these economies help the state government address its structural deficit and more efficiently allocate scarce income and assets.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
6 June 2025
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The benefits multiply, as the software can monitor other production lines for the same subscription cost, scaling efficiently with no additional fees.—
Simon Dae Oong Kim,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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“Handily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handily. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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