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Recent Examples of charitably
These days, Christmas movies, broadly and charitably defined, seem to be synonymous with the brassy, hokey, sickly sweet sort of fare that has a permanent home on the Hallmark Channel and is in perpetual rotation on Netflix.
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Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
In effect, this is just a trope of mondo films — or, less charitably, mockumentaries.
—Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
And kudos to Leeds goalkeeper Karl Darlow, above, for charitably helping them on their way.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
Less charitably, this part of his lab is a graveyard.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
Sol de Janeiro is thinking charitably for its newest push.
—James Manso, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for charitably
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Vance Joseph tried outfitting himself in a modest tone, even if his unit hasn’t exactly acted benevolently toward its training camp counterpart.—
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Giving altruistically may be unrealistic when the sun confronts Neptune.—
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But sellers do not offer lower prices to some consumers altruistically.—
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Mamdani magnanimously noted the president’s high support in 2024 for a Republican in New York.—
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To study how the birds tap, the researchers first humanely captured eight wild Downy Woodpeckers and carefully inserted electrodes into their muscles in the laboratory.—
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The goal of the effort is to locate reproductive female pythons and then humanely euthanize them, preventing further reproduction.—
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Our partners over there are looking for everyday heroes, like teachers, first responders, heck, anyone who has selflessly served others.—
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This part of the story is a story in itself, but the wars and the result left two-thirds of the recruits dead and rendered Rusty’s appendages useless as he selflessly piloted night and day to fight off every rogue machine.—
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Whitmore was benched — not as a punishment but as a reaffirmation of team standards such as playing with effort, being competitive at all times, playing with physicality (especially on defense), playing smart basketball and playing unselfishly.—
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Nor from showing how Bull unselfishly and painfully gets in the way when preventing Sterling from mounting his beloved Honey.—
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With this introduction of a hapless protagonist not entirely managing to live her best life, Brett Haley‘s film cheerfully speaks both the literary and cinematic language of romantic comedy — and won’t seek to subvert or elevate it in the two hours that follow.—
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Unable to roll the map out, its creators cheerfully realize that the country itself can serve as its own map.—
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Donalds graciously apologized and immediately set things right.—
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Sara Gibbs, executive director of Escondido Community Child Development Center, and Danielle Rush, HR director, graciously thanked Saint Helen Philoptochos and were very appreciative for their generous donation which was above and beyond their expectations, the news release stated.—
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“Charitably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charitably. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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