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Recent Examples of inwardly
And so that was something that actually gave me a lot of inspiration for finding layers and inwardly.
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Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
According to Gilbertsen, brick walls are notorious for absorbing solar heat during the day and then releasing the heat inwardly after sunset.
—Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
Never a fan of this kind of rhetoric—with which she and the rest of the country had been bombarded for years—Michiko inwardly bristled at the anecdote before the running dialogue changed tack to rumors about the new‑type bomb the Americans had just dropped on Hiroshima.
—Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
Not one to get sentimental, Koda seems to beam inwardly.
—Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 July 2016
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Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
According to Gilbertsen, brick walls are notorious for absorbing solar heat during the day and then releasing the heat inwardly after sunset.
—Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
Never a fan of this kind of rhetoric—with which she and the rest of the country had been bombarded for years—Michiko inwardly bristled at the anecdote before the running dialogue changed tack to rumors about the new‑type bomb the Americans had just dropped on Hiroshima.
—Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
Not one to get sentimental, Koda seems to beam inwardly.
—Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 July 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inwardly
Adverb
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Best Amazon Memorial Day Pants and Jeans Sales Amazon secretly has one of the most underrated selection of bottoms online—many of which are marked down right now.—
Annie Blackman,
InStyle,
23 May 2026
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Garrett Graham Fiercely protective with a secretly soft interior, Garrett is the ultimate Water sign fantasy because there’s so much underneath his reputation as a confident athlete.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
21 May 2026
Adverb
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Before long, Irwin and his wife, Hester (Scarlett Johansson), and their two teen-age sons (Roman Engel and Gavin Goudey), find themselves in grave danger from Irwin’s would-be employers—a threat driven home in two sequences that Gray stages in intimately terrifying fashion.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Basner knows the business intimately, having put together financing for one boundary-pushing film after another.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
12 May 2026
Adverb
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His sister took four days to respond, privately, with two sentences.—
Weike Wang,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
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Meanwhile, Hester has been privately dealing with mental lapses and throbbing headaches, refraining from telling her family about the medical tests her doctor ordered.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
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This isn’t a grabby, attention seeker of a film, but a quiet, watchful sort of movie that whispers its secrets sotto voce.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
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The first and rarest category involved sotto voce confessions of personal tree-felling or maiming episodes.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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“Inwardly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inwardly. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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