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Recent Examples of grimly
On Thanksgiving weekend in Washington, the script felt grimly familiar.
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Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2025
But now that all writers are more or less required to be influencers, the debate over the right way to post your poems seems grimly prescient.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Now that his styling is gone, Andrew’s future becomes grimly predictable.
—Rob Shuter, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
Some point, grimly, to when Disney bought Fox in 2019, laid off 3,000 people and drastically reduced the number of Fox films that go into theaters.
—Rebecca Keegan, NBC news, 7 Nov. 2025
And while the most exciting developments in defense are being driven by flashy, high-risk California VC investments, the man making the decisions comes from the grimly analytical East Coast world of PE.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025
The journey from there to the online affection for Luigi Mangione is a grimly straightforward one.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
The $2 Billion Gamble Of Drug Discovery For any executive in the pharmaceutical or biotech space, the numbers are grimly familiar.
—Miguel Llorca, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
What emerges from her lifelong attempts at maintaining personal and public cohesion makes for grimly fascinating viewing, reflected in her public defamations in the media and the chilling private messages of support from her sympathizers.
—Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grimly
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Since its debut, the initiative has been quietly but determinedly building physical bases in Lagos and Kenya, creating tangible spaces where female artists, producers, and engineers can access resources that Tems herself had to fight to find.—
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For long-haul trips, consider the Southern Hemisphere for a jolt of vitamin D in a rugged, determinedly uncommercial spot, or take a dip in a memorable, albeit temporary, Japanese onsen.—
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Fundholz was speaking more firmly and resolutely than before.—
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Their three arcs form a sweeping epic of sapphic immortality — resolutely old-fashioned in detail but thrillingly contemporary in the telling.—
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Instead, dip a cloth or cotton balls in acetone and blot firmly on the remaining polish.—
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His other go-to bogeyman, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, is now firmly in his lame-duck era as his term ends this spring.—
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Therefore, seeing multiple green aircraft together strongly suggests serial (repeat) production, not one-off prototypes.—
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The United Arab Emirates has been accused by human rights groups of directly supplying the RSF with weaponry, an allegation the country strongly denied, while Saudi Arabia and Egypt have allied with the SAF.—
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In a world where we’re so often stuck behind screens, where the digital has displaced the analog as aggressively as possible, there’s no better respite than stepping back and rolling up your sleeves.—
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Trump regularly criticized Powell during his first term in the White House for not lowering interest rates more aggressively.—
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The shiny chain mail material and bright apple green shade give the whole look a decidedly 2000s vibe.—
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Williams is a decidedly big dog, both in terms of his actual size (6-foot-3, 290 pounds) and his status as a veteran of last year’s Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.—
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Taste and add salt and pepper; the milk should be assertively seasoned.—
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These early reports highlight how the mode may behave more assertively than before.—
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In a scene straight from a horror movie, Carillo’s stomach was savagely cut open, blood everywhere.—
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Relatives said the timing of the broad-daylight attack made Ennin’s death that much more difficult to deal with, knowing that his reward for long-overdue time off was being savagely knifed to death on his first day back at work.—
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“Grimly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grimly. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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