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as in specially
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as in ornately
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fancily
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Plates created specially for the evening had been broken and glued back together.—
Kristen Tauer,
Footwear News,
10 Sep. 2025 -
The robot is trained specially for disaster-response applications, requiring it to pass multiple tests to prove its usefulness.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Sep. 2025
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The movie is an empty shell ornately decorated with eyecatching camera angles, an acidulously sun-bright palette, and whimsical dialogue.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2025
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These are all weapons specifically designed to annihilate outsiders trying to get inside the cities, weapons meant to cause the most pain for the amusement of the insiders (think a napalm bomb ornately decorated in the shape of a cone, which liquifies outsiders in seconds).—
Rafael Motamayor,
Vulture,
7 Aug. 2025
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Directly referencing elders in such a manner is exceptionally rare in ancient inscriptions, underscoring the significance of the find.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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This is opposed to Destiny 2’s exceptionally poor onboarding experience which has only gotten worse in time.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Each character’s hangups and drive are finely drawn throughout.—
Jasmine Vojdani,
Vulture,
2 Sep. 2025
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Adverbs that pertain to cutting are also super important, like thinly, coarsely, or finely.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
31 Aug. 2025
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For his part, Law, who will premiere his own film this week, provided an excellently convincing argument in the fiery northern Mediterranean man-fashion white-dinner-jacket debate that a double-breasted’s peaked lapels should each properly be the dimension of an aircraft carrier deck.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Options, so many options Rotation was a key theme of Chelsea’s summer as Enzo Maresca excellently navigated their way to Club World Cup triumph in the United States.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2025
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O’Brien’s dual roles as both flamboyantly gay charm bomb Rocky — who is flattened in a car accident early in the film — and the grieving and straight Roman comprise a career-topping performance.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
4 Sep. 2025
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The flamboyantly lascivious Frank-N-Furter is about to unveil his new Creature, the titular Rocky Horror (Peter Hinwood).—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
16 Aug. 2025
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The Sao Paolo Grand Prix, finishing third alongside Ocon's second was a standout performance for the driver, who managed to navigate the wet race superbly.—
Alex Harrington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Sep. 2025
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This is a unique portrait of families and their foibles, both amusing and annoying, superbly acted by an exceptional cast fully inhabiting their characters.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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The ingredients of an Erewhon smoothie (4) swirl together without any mixing, colors clashing ostentatiously.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
20 Aug. 2025
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Yet whereas Taxi Driver ends in a sequence of redemptive carnage, First Reformed swerves in its last moments into a scene so ostentatiously at odds with everything coming before that accepting it at face value would seem to mean denying the film up to that point had anything serious to say.—
Roy Scranton
August 20,
Literary Hub,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Fancily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancily. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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