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as in darkly
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as in somberly
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Adverb
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The music, which features heavily in the plot, is also growing in popularity across the U.S., just as the movie itself begins to drop ever so slightly.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025 -
On all of those questions, however, Californians were heavily divided along partisan lines.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
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Moscow, Washington, and, however unhappily, Kyiv know that NATO membership is out of Ukraine’s reach.—
The Editors,
National Review,
24 Apr. 2025
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The seller was unhappily mulling it when another offer emerged, then another.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Bleakly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleakly. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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