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Recent Examples of alarmingly
Animals are going extinct at an alarmingly fast rate, largely due to human activity.
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Darian Woods, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025
The answer, alarmingly, is yes.
—Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Whenever there’s a game in which a star Eagles wide receiver finishes with an alarmingly low target share, Sirianni brings up the same example.
—Zach Berman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Childhood is a time of enchantment, and a mother is a daughter’s first sorceress—omnipotent, enthralling, sometimes alarmingly so.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
Global needs are alarmingly high, driven overwhelmingly by the consequences of conflict and instability, yet the resources required to meet them are shrinking as some governments cut their funding for international humanitarian work.
—Cindy McCain, Time, 19 Aug. 2025
Rates of anxiety and depression among LGBTQ youth are alarmingly high with 66% reporting recent symptoms of anxiety and 53% reporting recent symptoms of depression.
—Rachel Ray, Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2025
The market recovery only began when Trump on April 9 paused his alarmingly-high tariffs.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025
Darian Woods, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025
The answer, alarmingly, is yes.
—Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Whenever there’s a game in which a star Eagles wide receiver finishes with an alarmingly low target share, Sirianni brings up the same example.
—Zach Berman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Childhood is a time of enchantment, and a mother is a daughter’s first sorceress—omnipotent, enthralling, sometimes alarmingly so.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
Global needs are alarmingly high, driven overwhelmingly by the consequences of conflict and instability, yet the resources required to meet them are shrinking as some governments cut their funding for international humanitarian work.
—Cindy McCain, Time, 19 Aug. 2025
Rates of anxiety and depression among LGBTQ youth are alarmingly high with 66% reporting recent symptoms of anxiety and 53% reporting recent symptoms of depression.
—Rachel Ray, Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2025
The market recovery only began when Trump on April 9 paused his alarmingly-high tariffs.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alarmingly
Adverb
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Apparently, disturbingly short.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
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Presciently, disturbingly, Chocobar’s murder occurred on October 12, a day commemorated in Argentina as the start of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Advertisement Opioid addiction is distressingly common in nearly every contact and combat sport, but Kerr was isolated from the endemic abuse of painkillers in the industry.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Naturally, the theft of the ghost shirt by the stooges in the employ of Roy Lee is accompanied by many deceased bodies — the first of the many bloodbaths in Americana, which has a distressingly expedient approach to on-screen carnage.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The value of the floating pound sank disgustingly, and this strategy was soon abandoned.—
Nathan Lewis,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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After Jeremiah gets disgustingly drunk at his bachelor party, Conrad finds out that Jeremiah cheated on Belly in Cabo.—
Dina Kaur,
AZCentral.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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There is, of course, a difference here, that being the fact that Netflix has annoyingly split season 2 of Wednesday into two parts, with the second airing on September 3, a month after the first.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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West Virginia in 2007 and Cincinnati in 2009 came awfully close.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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While skeptics will wisely point to the small sample size, Sox general manager Chris Getz and manager Will Venable must be getting awfully excited.—
Phil Rogers,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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But there’s also darkness in Cherry’s past, including an ex-boyfriend who has either terribly wronged her or been terribly wronged by her.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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And what if that fight didn’t go terribly well?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Sometimes prosthetics are required, or fake teeth, or horribly unflattering wigs.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Sep. 2025
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Timing that shortest of all short windows between when an avocado is hard as rock and horribly black and squishy has become one of the millennium’s many small trials in life (for avocado fans at least).—
Mark Faithfull,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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This subtle bait and switch from a national identity crisis to a personal identity crisis is imaginative and, for a time, intriguing, with Gadebois doing some very heavy lifting as the bad guy that means well but, nevertheless, behaves appallingly.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
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The novel was adapted into a successful play, and Carson followed it with two sequels, before her death from cancer, in 1941, by which time the prescience of her fiction had become appallingly evident.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Alarmingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alarmingly. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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