sleepily

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Adverb
  • Our faith traditions teach us not to stand idly by the blood of our neighbors.
    Joel Mosbacher, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025
  • For months, tensions had been building between the two city-states as the Athenians clashed with Sparta’s friends and the Spartans sat idly by.
    A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
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“Sleepily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleepily. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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