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as in frantically
in a confused and reckless manner
upon being dismissed, the students dashed wildly off in all directions
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as in extremely
to a great degree
trespassers make the recluse wildly angry
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Recent Examples of wildly
This wildly unsteady The-Fountainhead-meets-There-Will-Be-Blood plotting follows the most noxious strain in contemporary cinema.
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Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2025
To promote their work as a senior royal couple, Meghan and Harry launched their wildly popular Sussex Royal Instagram account in April 2019.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2025
And yet, unlike other categories that started out as niche—SPF, liquid exfoliators, eye creams—and became wildly popular, neck creams have not garnered the same traction.
—Funmi Fetto, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2025
Yet, with five years left, the world is wildly off-track on almost all the 169 promises.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2025
To promote their work as a senior royal couple, Meghan and Harry launched their wildly popular Sussex Royal Instagram account in April 2019.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2025
And yet, unlike other categories that started out as niche—SPF, liquid exfoliators, eye creams—and became wildly popular, neck creams have not garnered the same traction.
—Funmi Fetto, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2025
Yet, with five years left, the world is wildly off-track on almost all the 169 promises.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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The Student Academy Awards gold medal winner is about a meteor crash and a sushi restaurant mascot dressed as a fish who frantically rushes to a clock tower before the end of the world.Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 3 Jan. 2025
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Another pup in the background is shown frantically jumping around on a sofa while rubbing its paws against a blanket.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
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Over the last four years, my dog has taken dozens of flights annually and is extremely comfortable sleeping on the plane.Rachel Trujillo, People.com, 2 Jan. 2025
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To prepare his crew for the extremely intimate shoot—the vast majority of Cosmopolis takes place in Eric’s soundproofed stretch limo—Cronenberg asked them to watch Samuel Maoz’s Lebanon (a film set inside a tank) and Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot (a film set almost entirely inside a submarine).Violet Lucca, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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All of it wild-caught.Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2020
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Our first stop is in a wild-looking stretch 200 yards south of the railroad tracks and State Street.Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2023
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Blackjack isn’t as much fun to watch when everyone plays by the book, and this year is completely off the rails in the most incredibly unpredictable ways.Dalton Ross, EW.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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The Chiefs fell behind by 24 points in the second quarter but incredibly led 28-24 at halftime after Patrick Mahomes threw four touchdown passes in the period.Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
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The project has been beset by delays, legal challenges, rocketing costs, and the emotionally complicated spectacle of very old Holocaust survivors speaking both in favor and against it.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
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Glossy production values are starting to seem very 2019.Martin Kihn, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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We were treated terribly during the hostage crisis.Courtney Dorning, NPR, 11 Jan. 2025
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And in a terribly fateful move, economists encouraged the switching of a tariff for an income tax, the spirit of 1913, when the income tax came on and the tariff was substantially reduced.Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Fertilizers applied just before a downpour are highly susceptible to runoff, and the nutrients will likely be carried away before benefiting plants.Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 10 Jan. 2025
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The semiconductor supply chain is highly vulnerable to shocks, and concerned governments have lobbied TSMC to move more production away from Taiwan.AFP, Fortune Asia, 10 Jan. 2025
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But researchers wondered whether schools serve another purpose, too: helping fish save energy.Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
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Other CEOs are getting written about more, too, but their rates of annual growth (e.g. 85% for Bezos and 44% for Zuckerberg) don't come close.Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Wildly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wildly. Accessed 14 Jan. 2025.
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