gruesomely
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A scenario that gruesomely echoes The Handmaid's Tale.
From Salon ● May 3, 2024
And it isn’t always clear what you’re seeing: A C-section is gruesomely self-explanatory; the burnt-looking layers of a just-removed tumor, not so much.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
By the fall of 1942, German troops had actually broken into Stalingrad, but their progress thereafter was gruesomely slow and difficult.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
If you're young enough not to remember that time there were months of widespread walkouts bringing misery in freezing temperatures, rubbish in the streets and gruesomely, even a gravediggers' strike.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2022
The trees of the Black Forest, though, were gruesomely dead, each and every one of them.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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