evasively

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Adverb
  • Hacks star Jean Smart carried an ambiguously political message with her throughout the evening.
    Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Jamian Juliano-Villani’s friezelike painting Women, 2024, offers a surreptitious turn on Marcel Duchamp and Eadweard Muybridge by featuring an ostensibly female figure with too many (and ambiguously gendered) appendages.
    Tim Griffin, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Adverb
  • Rachel Barber The Fed typically lowers its benchmark rate to stimulate the economy by making borrowing costs cheaper, which can indirectly lower interest rates on auto loans, personal loans, and credit cards.
    Rachel Barber, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • By 2025, the War on Terror had shattered entire nations and economies, displaced some 40 million citizens and directly and indirectly killed over four million.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • Inside, the floor plan flows circuitously, creating an open plan filled with natural light.
    Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 29 Apr. 2026
  • And the fact that lots of these startups ultimately sell to other startups circuitously makes things even more insular.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • This term means to praise someone excessively and insincerely.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Scammers call older people, falsely claiming the victim’s bank account, Social Security number or other personal information has been compromised, Sorrells said.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2026
  • All deliver explicit pornography and, in at least one case, a scam site falsely claiming a visitor’s computer is infected and advising the visitor to pay a fee for the non-existent malware to be removed.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • An earlier version of this story erroneously stated which brewery won gold in the West Coast-style IPA category.
    Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2026
  • That forecast, Braun said, erroneously based on tariff impacts, has changed for the better.
    Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
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“Evasively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evasively. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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