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Recent Examples of outwardly
Many of them are still outwardly gorgeous, soaring as tall as 100 feet with a canopies of 70 feet or more.
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Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
In the year since, both women have appeared to send subliminal messages about each other via their social media, but neither has outwardly dissed the other until this week, keeping it mostly professional.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 16 Apr. 2026
If Anže Kopitar, the Kings’ leading scorer on both of their Cup runs and in franchise history, was understated and hesitant to embrace the spotlight, Quick was outwardly stoic and practically shunned attention.
—Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 13 Apr. 2026
While Gettysburg dramatizes Confederate soldiers’ points of view without outwardly sympathizing with them, the same cannot honestly be said of Maxwell’s late-era prequel, Gods and Generals (2003).
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Apr. 2026
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Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
In the year since, both women have appeared to send subliminal messages about each other via their social media, but neither has outwardly dissed the other until this week, keeping it mostly professional.
—Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 16 Apr. 2026
If Anže Kopitar, the Kings’ leading scorer on both of their Cup runs and in franchise history, was understated and hesitant to embrace the spotlight, Quick was outwardly stoic and practically shunned attention.
—Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 13 Apr. 2026
While Gettysburg dramatizes Confederate soldiers’ points of view without outwardly sympathizing with them, the same cannot honestly be said of Maxwell’s late-era prequel, Gods and Generals (2003).
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outwardly
Adverb
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None the less, stress that begins externally frequently enters the home.—
Maia Niguel Hoskin,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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Lift the right knee up and out to the side, externally rotating your right hip for a clamshell.—
Mallory Creveling,
Health,
15 May 2026
Adverb
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Mihai is less patient with the process and rallies his community to visibly protest among other tactics.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
18 May 2026
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The old model, the one that sustained the indie ecosystem, is visibly fraying.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
Adverb
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Importing higher-paying—and oftentimes higher-achieving—students benefits a school during boom times, when universities have seemingly infinite choice among applicants.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
19 May 2026
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Pro wrestling fans have tried to grapple with Zayn seemingly being pushed out of the title picture.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
18 May 2026
Adverb
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The ham, apparently, is not the only thing worth exporting from that region.—
Gabriel Alin Zainescu,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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Though, there is no archival footage of Moulin’s bloody crucible, and Nemes apparently had some interest in filming that.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
Adverb
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Far From the Tree, evidently likes to keep her dad active.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
14 May 2026
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Plus, evidently there is no crime or corruption problem in Florida so Uthmeier has lots of free time to meddle in how sports leagues dare align on the side of equal opportunity.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2026
Adverb
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Global disaster shadowed this year’s Witten Days for New Chamber Music, an ostensibly insular contemporary-music festival that takes place each spring in the Ruhr Valley, in Germany.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Not to mention that, in the cabin, the only person doing the dishes and rinsing out everyone’s beer cans for the recycling was the ostensibly famous lead singer—the only woman, natch.—
Dan Kois,
Pitchfork,
17 May 2026
Adverb
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Every generous gesture, every supposedly respectful question, every delicate expression of complete fixation becomes quietly infected by the growing understanding that Cole sees Māori humanity itself as something ornamental.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
17 May 2026
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Even the artists whose work all this machinery is supposedly serving no longer have a reliable way to know what real audiences actually want, since whatever feedback reaches them may already have passed through the same apparatus built to distort that feedback in the first place.—
Lane Brown,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
Adverb
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But with supposedly or putatively race-neutral methods, for 100 years, the right to vote was denied.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
4 May 2026
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From the perspective of a world of increasingly unimaginable maldistribution of resources, cascading ecological collapse, a genocide cheered on by a putatively liberal order, both are barbarisms.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Outwardly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outwardly. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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