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Recent Examples of coldly
Her parents are coldly up-front in their homophobia, but this is the late 1980s.
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
The shame falls on every single person that coldly turned a blind eye to their abuse.
—Hannah Parry
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Belly reacts coldly to Conrad's confession, leaving the future of her relationship with Jeremiah uncertain.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
But this is real life, not fiction, and Loktev isn’t coldly observing her subjects from on high or yanking them along on unseen strings.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
The rapper attempted suicide as a teen, after his first love coldly broke up with him.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
The shame falls on every single person that coldly turned a blind eye to their abuse.
—Hannah Parry
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Belly reacts coldly to Conrad's confession, leaving the future of her relationship with Jeremiah uncertain.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
But this is real life, not fiction, and Loktev isn’t coldly observing her subjects from on high or yanking them along on unseen strings.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
The rapper attempted suicide as a teen, after his first love coldly broke up with him.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coldly
coolly
Adverb
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Esther is smiling; Bella looks coolly down her nose and into the lens.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Charismatic and coolly intelligent, Gray was a perfect early platform for Washington’s leading-man chops.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Coldly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coldly. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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