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View definitions for quietly

quietly

adverb as in discreetly

adverb as in calmly

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Instead, she will spend the day quietly at home in Kilimanjaro.

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Yet these countries have quietly shaped the modern world for centuries.

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China too had been quietly investigating the Prince Group since at least 2020.

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A large study led by scientists at McMaster University has found that fat stored deep inside the abdomen and liver can quietly injure arteries, even in people who seem healthy on the outside.

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That adjustment, based on employer tax records rather than surveys, estimated what many believed was a resilient labor market into one that’s been quietly losing steam.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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