coldly

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Karina initially approached BioTexCom to be a surrogate but chose not to proceed with the clinic, feeling they had treated her coldly in initial appointments with them.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

What’s more coldly impartial, however, is the economic research.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

But something broke her — nearly every character here is broken, it’s a virtual trauma convention — and now she is the coldly efficient power behind what is meant to resemble a government.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025

“We’re not rodeo people,” my mother coldly informed me.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2024

The river, still dark and mysterious, was spanned by bridges that were turning coldly grey, with here and there at top a warm touch from the burning in the sky.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens