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Recent Examples of shortly Gretzky was spotted wearing a MAGA hat shortly afterward and attended Trump's inauguration. Ryan Morik, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2025 Subscribe to hear this story The Internal Revenue Service started accepting income-tax returns on Jan. 27, opening the spigots of refund money shortly thereafter. Russ Wiles, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025 Deputies responded to a call of an assault with a deadly weapon shortly before 9 p.m. at a home on Rancho Villa Road near Quest Road, north of state Route 78. Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025 Kody's first wife, Meri, shortly followed with her own announcement in January 2023. Esther Kang, People.com, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shortly
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Adverb
  • After briefly pausing this second TRO, the Court lifted its stay.
    The Editors, National Review, 6 Mar. 2025
  • In footage from the game’s live broadcast, Common puts his arms around Hudson in the aftermath, and McBride briefly speaks with the pair before continuing the game.
    EW.com, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • Opened in 2018, The Funky Taco soon will cease to exist.
    Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 25 Feb. 2025
  • We are also excited by rising talent S.S. Daley, launching soon on Moda Operandi, and his charming approach to modernizing nostalgic British codes.
    Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 25 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • But what’s been long hidden is its supermassive black hole that likely lies at its center, although its exact location is still not precisely known.
    Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Such flexibility was precisely what was lacking in the consciousness of former President Joe Biden and his foreign policy advisers, who clung to the old unipolar days when the American president could hold sway throughout the world with no one to say him nay.
    Robert W. Merry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025

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“Shortly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shortly. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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