aptly
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She too had three dads, as she chronicled in a 2020 New Yorker piece aptly titled “My Three Fathers.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
That short phrase aptly describes how one U.S. state overtook hundreds of years of Iranian market power in a matter of decades.
From Salon • May 6, 2026
The building was historical and aptly named the Security Building.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
The nature of the threat posed by sand pits was put aptly by golf writer Aleck Bauer in 1913: “Bunkers are not intended to be pleasure grounds but places of repentance.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Let us study war as if it were, as Einstein aptly called it, an illness of childhood.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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