ironically
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You used to root for Bronny James to come into games ironically.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026
Others are commenting about the situation — ironically, by taking to social media to voice their frustrations about what they’re losing in rewards, be it in points or cash.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026
It would appear that Gyllenhaal’s film has been ironically hacked up and reassembled, but the Frankenstein’d version of “The Bride!” that we’re left with works because it wills itself to.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
Its nonexistence is, ironically, the main thing to emerge so far from the document dump.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
His enigmatic silence, however, unquestionably had mischievous consequences, for it prolonged the scheming in the House and, somewhat ironically, convinced Jefferson that Burr could never be trusted.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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