offhandedly
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Most people, I think, still have a positive association with the name, and Tupperware’s problem is that the company doesn’t actually get paid when someone offhandedly refers to their Rubbermaid or OXO container as “Tupperware.”
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2024
Even decades later, Hodes, now a historian at New York University, brought it up only with close friends, and then only offhandedly.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Toward the end of the song Del Rey says in an offhandedly conversational manner, “Join the party. By the way, the party is Dec. 18.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023
Finn replies offhandedly, “You can’t miss what you never had, right?”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023
Vic’s memory of her is absolutely correct—she sees him so precisely, so wonderfully, so offhandedly.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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