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Adverb
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The fireball expands rapidly, rippling through the air as emergency sirens wail faintly in the distance.—
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Remember to be patient as auroras may arrive in quiet bursts, glowing faintly before becoming vibrant waves of color.—
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The objects were delicately retrieved from the ground like pieces of the puzzles of history.—
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At first glance, the choker reprises the incisions and delicately curving edges meant to evoke Chanel’s distinctive quilting, with a sliding clasp closure to adjust it closely to the neck.—
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On a rainy Saturday last summer, I can be found paddling out, popping up, and generally hanging ten—goofily, shakily, semi-triumphantly—in a skylit East Village walk-up.—
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The defense began shakily, giving up 231 yards of total offense in the first half.—
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One man aboard the boat knew how to navigate the mangroves and sandbars of the keys, and with the late summer sun beating down on the rafters, the boat pushed out feebly into the open ocean.—
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They’d been poorly reviewed, sold weakly, and were generally held in low esteem except by a select few.—
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Many systems are either highly mobile but weakly connected, or strongly connected but slow to reconfigure and prone to losing mobility.—
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“Frailly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frailly. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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