ironically
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"It was a toxic term about extreme competitiveness, the urge to dominate. People then started to use it ironically and teasingly."
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The setting is a western Pennsylvania small town called Fairhaven — ironically, given the less than idyllic new and old business we’re about to witness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Not ironically, and not only in the nostalgic way one loves things that arrived alongside an adolescence spent under fluorescent lighting.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
At these big-box stores, packaged quantities, ironically, didn’t seem large enough to feed their family of nine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Maybe that’s an egotistical thing to say—we are all centers of our personal universes in any event—but it was ironically obvious to me; and my father had told me straight out, anyway.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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