adverb
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The adverb is apt because dividend-paying stocks have long struggled.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
The prefix ong-, the zone of extremities, provided ongcho, “to stitch,” something one did with fingers, as well as the adverb ongkochil, meaning “hurriedly,” which usually applied to movements involving a hand or foot.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
Moreover, it’s a dull adverb and encourages duller adjectives.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2022
Please learn the difference between an adverb and an adjective.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
No comma, no period, no adjective or adverb was beneath his interest.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
A line such as this one, from Carrickfergus, a traditional ballad Shane admired, says more about state of mind than any sentence loaded with adjectives and adverbs.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023
The bound words were nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that always existed with markers indicating a relation to other objects, events or states.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
Reading her articles aloud, Ms. Rubin said, helps her cut superfluous adverbs like “very” and “really” — or break up long paragraphs that provide context but can quickly become unwieldy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2022
And as English majors, what mostly alarmed us then were all the adverbs author J.K.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2022
Every now and again a language grump complains that the distinction between adverbs and adjectives is disappearing from English.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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