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Adverb
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The head must be high, the feet body-width apart, sometimes with one rear hoof slightly behind the other.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Feb. 2025 -
Even the best athletes bend the rules sometimes—which is pretty much what happened on Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce‘s Super Bowl date.—
Jenzia Burgos,
StyleCaster,
8 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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The Super Bowl, while great for TV ratings, rarely (if ever) coincides with championship-worthy box office ticket sales.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
9 Feb. 2025
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People rarely are presented as good or bad in certain clothes.—
Julian Randall,
Essence,
9 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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Unfortunately, the movie seldom hides its seams for the physical work that’s beyond her capabilities.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2025
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The escalating tension of that final act is as shocking and violent and viciously cold as anything in Franco’s filmography, which has seldom shied away from stark depictions of human cruelty — whether intimate in scale, like After Lucia, or encompassing explosive societal conflict, like New Order.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
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“Inconsistently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inconsistently. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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