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handsomely

adverb as in abundantly

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Mr. Easterly is not a friend of rich-world technocrats or top-down dispensers of aid and omniscience who frequently fail to consult the very people—the Third World poor—for whose salvation they get paid handsomely.

Those who bought when fear was highest were rewarded handsomely.

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Backing Shafali Verma to bowl in a tense final was an inspired call - a gamble, perhaps, but one that paid off handsomely.

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It didn’t help that Zaslav has long been one of the most handsomely compensated executives in America.

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While other central banks willingly sent their respective economies into recession, the RBA walked a gentler road, and it has paid off handsomely with employment at record highs.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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