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Recent Examples of spectacularly
That’s the spirit behind the AI Darwin Awards, which recognize the most spectacularly misguided uses of the technology.
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Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Tahoe is an easy Editors' Choice winner thanks to its flexible customization options, innovative productivity tweaks, and spectacularly uniform look.
—Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
But despite the initial bonhomie, the decision to appoint Mandelson has backfired on Starmer spectacularly.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Not only has his presidency exacerbated the cost-of-living woes and political alienation that Le Pen and her allies thrive on, but his various attempts to assuage concerns over their most important cause—opposition to immigration—have backfired spectacularly.
—Cole Stangler, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
Man, September is a spectacularly beautiful month.
—Cate Martel, The Hill, 8 Sep. 2025
All this acrimony stemmed from a case where Fulton County Prosecutor Fani Willis spectacularly whiffed while attempting to criminalize rap lyrics and super glue the misdeeds of everyone Thug and Gunna knew onto them.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
Hubble’s views spectacularly revealed many massive stars in Pismis 24.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Sep. 2025
These politicians are missing the point spectacularly.
—Jack Sheehan
september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Tahoe is an easy Editors' Choice winner thanks to its flexible customization options, innovative productivity tweaks, and spectacularly uniform look.
—Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
But despite the initial bonhomie, the decision to appoint Mandelson has backfired on Starmer spectacularly.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Not only has his presidency exacerbated the cost-of-living woes and political alienation that Le Pen and her allies thrive on, but his various attempts to assuage concerns over their most important cause—opposition to immigration—have backfired spectacularly.
—Cole Stangler, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
Man, September is a spectacularly beautiful month.
—Cate Martel, The Hill, 8 Sep. 2025
All this acrimony stemmed from a case where Fulton County Prosecutor Fani Willis spectacularly whiffed while attempting to criminalize rap lyrics and super glue the misdeeds of everyone Thug and Gunna knew onto them.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
Hubble’s views spectacularly revealed many massive stars in Pismis 24.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Sep. 2025
These politicians are missing the point spectacularly.
—Jack Sheehan
september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spectacularly
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Most strikingly, 24% of patients were free of seizures – something rarely seen in a treatment-resistant population.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 Sep. 2025
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The Panthers need to continue to feed him, especially as Young looks so strikingly inconsistent.—
DIAMOND VENCES,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Ravn’s prose is striking too, richly marbled with quotation and detail pulled from primary source letters and court documents.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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Using faux chenille, a fabric manipulation technique that creates layered textures, Threadapeutic produces richly tactile works that can take three months to complete, such as Gather and Shore wall hangings made from lace, brocade and tulle scraps.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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The show’s palette trends toward bottle-green woods, gauzy golden light, dusky midnight-blue nighttime scenes, and grimly gray interiors, and within those tableaus, Task’s male characters are gorgeously aggrieved, emotion pouring off of them like coffee from a Wawa urn.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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The documentary begins gorgeously, with a blur slowly coming into focus.—
Jeremy Helligar,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis got along splendidly on the set of Black Swan — despite director Darren Aronofsky's best efforts.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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And talking of hackers and Windows, both came together rather splendidly in Las Vegas at the Black Hat hacking conference where it was demonstrated how the Windows Hello facial recognition sign-in security could be bypassed by a threat actor injecting their own images into the process.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Spectacularly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spectacularly. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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