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as in intimately
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as in commonly
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for familiarly
Adverb
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Even children and adolescents express more willingness to shun and punish moral transgressors than people who do something personally obnoxious or offensive but not immoral.—
Jen Cole Wright,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2025 -
As the report highlighted, culture wars are about both sides attempting to impose their will by personally insulting others who hold opposing viewpoints, seeking ways to cancel the social and professional lifestyles of others, and preventing others from participating in public debates.—
Eric Wood,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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His process usually begins the same way: examining the release language tucked near the end of the agreement, where the list of parties shielded from liability appears.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Ryan Reynolds, who moonlights as co-owner of Welsh soccer club Wrexham A.F.C., turned up alongside super-creator Taylor Sheridan (whose own athletics usually involve cattle), NBA investor Mark Cuban and former Obama commerce secretary Penny Prtizker.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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Purple states are generally presidential battleground states or those where voters regularly split their support between the two parties: Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.—
Rae Ellen Bichell and Rachana Pradhan,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2025
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More Americans generally said the government is doing too little on the environment when a Republican administration leads than during a Democratic presidency.—
Lauren Irwin,
The Hill,
17 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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Led by Marcel Malanga's father, Christian Malanga, a Congolese political exile who ordinarily lived in Utah, the group of men attacked the home of a senior Congolese politician on May 19, 2024, before invading Kinshasa's sprawling presidential complex.—
NPR's International Desk,
NPR,
8 Apr. 2025
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The dual-class effect: Meta as a case study In a standard single-class structure – where voting power tracks the amount of company equity a shareholder owns – someone seeking total control of a company must ordinarily spend a lot of money buying up shares, which also means assuming a lot of risk.—
Gregory H. Shill,
The Conversation,
8 Apr. 2025
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What went cruelly overlooked was the larger effect of such coercion: lasting trauma for Schneider, whose outspokenness over the years about her experience typically went unnoticed.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2025
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In a corporate office, employees typically do not sit in one spot all day.—
Kate Wieczorek,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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“Familiarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/familiarly. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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