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No one is circling the wagons to defend Weinberg, or sitting idly by hoping the allegations are forgotten.
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Megan Schrader, Denver Post, 9 July 2025
Suffice to say that Boyle and Garland maintain their pop-cultural savvy to the end, and that none of their characters’ names—watch the prologue carefully—have been chosen idly.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 June 2025
Few countries would stand idly by if a nearby nation vowed to erase it from the face of the earth and was close to acquiring a nuclear bomb.
—Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 20 June 2025
But Laika hasn’t been sitting idly in the six years that have passed.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 25 June 2025
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Megan Schrader, Denver Post, 9 July 2025
Suffice to say that Boyle and Garland maintain their pop-cultural savvy to the end, and that none of their characters’ names—watch the prologue carefully—have been chosen idly.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 June 2025
Few countries would stand idly by if a nearby nation vowed to erase it from the face of the earth and was close to acquiring a nuclear bomb.
—Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 20 June 2025
But Laika hasn’t been sitting idly in the six years that have passed.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 25 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for idly
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“Idly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idly. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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