adverb
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The adverb is apt because dividend-paying stocks have long struggled.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
The prefix ong-, the zone of extremities, provided ongcho, “to stitch,” something one did with fingers, as well as the adverb ongkochil, meaning “hurriedly,” which usually applied to movements involving a hand or foot.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
She then asked whether the word “structure” was a noun, verb, adjective or adverb.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
Moreover, it’s a dull adverb and encourages duller adjectives.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2022
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
A line such as this one, from Carrickfergus, a traditional ballad Shane admired, says more about state of mind than any sentence loaded with adjectives and adverbs.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023
Also inseparable from their prefixes, which endowed them with meaning, were adjectives and adverbs.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
And as English majors, what mostly alarmed us then were all the adverbs author J.K.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2022
Pronouns are one of the eight main parts of speech, the others being nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives—thousands of them—as well as a cool sentence-maker that is located on another level.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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