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Playing backyard basketball with Nikola Jokic, Murray had just nonchalantly flipped a pass behind his back to the reigning MVP center, whose floater gave the Nuggets a late 112-108 lead.
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Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 11 Apr. 2025
Perhaps we are spurred to do so via TV shows, YouTube videos, movies, and other media that often loosely and for click-baiting impact nonchalantly make use of the phrase.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
In a clip viewed more than 1.8 million times, the woman walks Zoe down the street as a man in the distance—her brother David—can be seen walking toward them nonchalantly.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
The bovines chew their cud nonchalantly.
—Betsy Andrews, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Apr. 2025
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Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 11 Apr. 2025
Perhaps we are spurred to do so via TV shows, YouTube videos, movies, and other media that often loosely and for click-baiting impact nonchalantly make use of the phrase.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
In a clip viewed more than 1.8 million times, the woman walks Zoe down the street as a man in the distance—her brother David—can be seen walking toward them nonchalantly.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
The bovines chew their cud nonchalantly.
—Betsy Andrews, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for nonchalantly
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“Nonchalantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonchalantly. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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