as in still
without motion
she stood quietly behind the curtains, hoping to scare her sister when she came into the room
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Recent Examples of quietly
Amazon quietly discounted dozens of top picks from Stewart’s collection, including Dutch ovens, knife sets, oven mitts, and more, with prices starting at just $8 and discounts going for up to 60 percent off.
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Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
The prose looks polished, charts look clean, and a single percentage point buried in the model quietly pushes the decision in a different direction.
—Arkansas Online, 8 Jan. 2026
It is understood Petruzzo quietly exited Dior late last year and will reveal her next move soon.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 7 Jan. 2026
In December, The Wall Street Journal reported that Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, has been quietly working on its own data storage spacecraft for the past year.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Jan. 2026
But behind the scenes, one click can quietly hand over passwords, banking access and personal data.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Jan. 2026
But as trends shifted, industrial design quietly faded from the spotlight.
—Farima Ferguson, The Spruce, 7 Jan. 2026
For decades, blue states had quietly subsidized red ones, in an unspoken exchange that once passed for national unity.
—Jonathan Taplin, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2026
What started as a returns tool has quietly grown into something bigger.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 7 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quietly
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Meanwhile, in Venezuela, the fallout from the attack is still being felt in real time.—
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Fans added fuel to the fire of speculation by discovering that Tisdale French still follows Trainor, but not Moore or Duff.—
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Some workers just quiet-quit, doing the minimum to hold on to their jobs.—
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On another end were the quiet-seeking bedrooms and bathrooms, one with a step-down Roman shower.—
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“Quietly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quietly. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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