1
as in extremely
to a great degree
the team has vastly improved in the course of the season
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2
as in highly
to a large extent or degree
vastly underestimated the cost of advertising the new product
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Recent Examples of vastly
Falling off a motorcycle is vastly different to crashing one of these things, because that torquey aircraft motor is attached to a lethal propeller and has no kill switch and can commit untold carnage from a minor mishap.
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Mike Hanlon, New Atlas, 18 Mar. 2025
Maxim Timchenko has a warning for any European politicians weighing a return of Russian pipelined gas: the true costs vastly exceed the sticker price.
—Ben Geman, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
Sign In Runway By Irene Kim March 17, 2025
Fashion month takes us from New York to London to Milan to Paris, four cities with identities of their own, yet among those vastly different places, trends can always be observed.
—Irene Kim, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2025
At the heart of this debate is not just hostility to social justice but an even more fundamental question: Does America want to be a unified country or merely a confederation of states with vastly different rules, standards, and rights?
—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
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Mike Hanlon, New Atlas, 18 Mar. 2025
Maxim Timchenko has a warning for any European politicians weighing a return of Russian pipelined gas: the true costs vastly exceed the sticker price.
—Ben Geman, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
Sign In Runway By Irene Kim March 17, 2025
Fashion month takes us from New York to London to Milan to Paris, four cities with identities of their own, yet among those vastly different places, trends can always be observed.
—Irene Kim, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2025
At the heart of this debate is not just hostility to social justice but an even more fundamental question: Does America want to be a unified country or merely a confederation of states with vastly different rules, standards, and rights?
—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vastly
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The level of steadiness from the Charlotte Hornets’ starting power forward has been off the charts lately, and he’s fared extremely well since the All-Star break, easily morphing into the team’s most valuable player.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
15 Mar. 2025
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For people, most of the problems begin in what’s called the wildland-urban interface (WUI): A growing number of homeowners in the region live in extremely close proximity to forests and grasslands, where wildfires can easily encroach on property.—
Kiley Price,
WIRED,
15 Mar. 2025
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Early research tried to pin the deaths on an unlikely culprit: the highly toxic cycad plant and its seeds, which locals ground into flour to make tortillas.—
Shayla Love,
The Atlantic,
23 Mar. 2025
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Each new Indigenous resident-physician comes from communities that are highly underrepresented in medicine and experience disproportionate health disparities.—
Victor A. Lopez-Carmen, MD,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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In an incredibly clumsy move to penetrate the Chinese market, Facebook secretly released apps in the country through shell corporations without authorization, but supposedly with the tacit approval of China’s internet regulator.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
21 Mar. 2025
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Digital partners that enable end to end supplier integration can have an incredibly powerful impact on supply chain operations for all involved.—
Kate Vitasek,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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His friend and medical partner, Dr. Robert Patton, admired him greatly.—
Peter Van Sant,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2025
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Jiwa’s identity as a South Asian and Muslim woman also greatly influences her fashion decisions, with her hijab often pulling all of her outfits together.—
Athena Sobhan,
People.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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After narrowly surviving the very injured Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night, 131-126, the Denver Nuggets are slated to square off against the lowly Washington Wizards on the second night of a back-to-back tilt.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
16 Mar. 2025
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Master's degrees in public service fields (think education and social work) tend to have very low or negative ROIs.—
Robert Farrington,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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In the movie, Nicholson plays a bank robber whose heist goes terribly wrong, leaving a trail of death and destruction behind.—
Gillian Telling,
People.com,
12 Mar. 2025
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And, when Andreeva did just that and snagged the big title, no one who’s been following women’s tennis was terribly surprised.—
Louisa Thomas,
The New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2025
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The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health do this today, on a much larger scale.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2025
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To exit a short position, shares sometimes need to be repurchased at a much higher price than sold because of a lack of stock to buy.—
Brendan Coffey,
Sportico.com,
12 Mar. 2025
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Real Madrid also considered bidding for Isak in the summer of 2022 but believed the price to be too steep.—
Chris Waugh,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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Experts can be too confident in their abilities, and followers may be too unsure to say something.—
Ashley Thess,
Outdoor Life,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Vastly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vastly. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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