as in easily
without difficulty
the pizza worker flung the round of dough into the air and effortlessly caught it
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Adverb
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Two bills working their way through committees get at different ways to keep drinking water clean for areas impacted by Karst geology, which allows nitrate runoff from agricultural practices to more easily seep into groundwater.—
MinnPost,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025 -
Unfortunately, the president has used his bully pulpit to advance the simply wrong idea that water from Northern California could have been easily conveyed to the Los Angeles area last month to fight the worst wildfires the region had ever seen.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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Tonight: Check your finances. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★ Go easy and be tactful today, because your dealings with close friends, spouses and partners might be difficult.—
Georgia Nicols,
The Denver Post,
31 Jan. 2025
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Brooklyn has done a deep dive into what Memphis can offer them, making a trade seemingly easy between the two sides.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
Adverb
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Dead skin cells not being efficiently sloughed off can cause congestion, inflammation, and eventual breakouts.—
Twiggy Jalloh,
Vogue,
6 Feb. 2025
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By tracking the puck efficiently, Swayman put himself in a good position to raise his glove and snatch Boldy’s 40-footer to keep the Bruins up by a pair.—
Fluto Shinzawa,
The Athletic,
5 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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Ebola, in 2014, killed only two people in the U.S., but allowing the virus, the death rate of which can be as high as 90 percent, to freely spread across America would have been catastrophic.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2025
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And as McCarthy’s activities stoked fears of anticommunist subversion, thousands of additional Americans, by some estimates, lost their jobs, their freedom to speak or travel freely, and even their lives for being suspected of left-wing beliefs or associations.—
Made by History,
TIME,
9 Feb. 2025
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