spectacularly

Example Sentences

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Efforts to turn Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk into a pop culture icon after his killing last September have backfired spectacularly, with online parodists meme-ifying his image.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

This may simply be agreement with Salah's complaints about falling standards rather than rebellion in the ranks, but once again the narrative, plus the conclusions drawn from it, are spectacularly unhelpful for Slot.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

That this “Great Performances” presentation fails so spectacularly isn’t any one person’s fault.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

Note that a window means your traveling companion may then be stuck next to a spectacularly loquacious bore.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon