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smilingly



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She poked fun at the incident with her staffer in an ad, smilingly asking a group of whiteboard-wielding supporters behind her to “please get out of my shot.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

Angus O’Brien as the smilingly unhinged Hicks is a memorably mad recruit who stirs things up for no reason but his own amusement, and ours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

"I was the head and Desnoues was the hands," Mr Pallot told the court smilingly.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025

The soldiers smilingly told people they had come to “liberate them.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022

In the schoolyard the boys begged rides, and Jody smilingly agreed.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck




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