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spectacularly

ADVERB
notoriously
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Yet he had a feel for Melville’s sentences, in which everything might go spectacularly right.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

While Rockefeller was the most spectacularly successful at monopoly building—what he gently termed “cooperation”—he was also part of a greater movement in American business toward rationalization and centralization.

From Barron's • May 2, 2026

Some of Elon Musk’s ventures—Tesla, SpaceX—have been spectacularly successful.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

This will, in theory, spectacularly reduce process complexity and cost compared to their redundancy-heavy rivals.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

By the end of 2007 FrontPoint’s bets against subprime mortgages had paid off so spectacularly that they had doubled the size of their fund, from a bit over $700 million to $1.5 billion.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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