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as in deliberately
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as in cunningly
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Adverb
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Although the pace of fabric purchasing for collections has slowed down due to fluctuations in the global economy, Yaşar said brands are doing this with the aim of managing the process more deliberately.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
24 July 2025 -
The message is casual, confident, and deliberately intriguing.—
Chris Groshong,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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The new batch of six episodes, all written or co-written by its creator Charlie Brooker, reflects the full range of how the show has evolved to include new grooves — a mix of the horrific and the comedic, the hopeful and the nihilistic, the archly British and the sourly American.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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Repeatedly rising to the challenge of maneuvering through the film’s myriad plot twists and tonal shifts, McKellen is by turns imperiously hilarious, archly devious, forlornly melancholy and pathetically desperate.—
Joe Leydon,
Variety,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Calculatingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculatingly. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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