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Adverb
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Witnesses described the shark as looking healthy, moving agilely and visibly feeding.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
15 Oct. 2025
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The housekeepers greet me with genuine care, the bartenders create cocktails with panache and smiles, and the doormen and women jauntily pose for pictures in their thick Batman-style winter cloaks.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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Fresh flowers burst explosively out of each cake, swinging jauntily over stacks of vanilla sponges and creamy frostings.—
The Bon Appétit,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
20 Mar. 2026
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The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan think tank, has advocated for something similar, recently proposing a plan that would allow the government to nimbly navigate its stressed budget the next time the economy enters a downturn.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
17 Apr. 2026
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Green’s guitar whirls nimbly underneath the words, while an effect like a muted choir loops in the background.—
Linnie Greene,
Pitchfork,
6 Mar. 2026
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As the curtain lifts, Eugene (a dashingly coiffed Joseph Walsh, with perfect villainous eyebrows) faces his uncle’s casket, shaking with horror.—
Rachel Howard,
San Francisco Chronicle,
24 Jan. 2026
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Turner is also great, playing the dashingly handsome hero with emotional depth.—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
Refinery29,
20 Nov. 2025
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The taut nail-biter is well-acted, crafted with skill and briskly paced, running a tight 95 minutes.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Apr. 2026
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Under the direction and choreography of Christopher Gattelli, the show moves briskly, with energetic staging that embraces the heightened reality of its setting.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
21 Apr. 2026
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Not exactly a breezily escapist tale of party-girl antics, this is more of a dystopian novel about the inevitable tech-apocalypse, told through the story of a family on vacation from Brooklyn.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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The comedians Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang breezily observed on a podcast last month that donating to Crockett is a waste of money.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Spryly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spryly. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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