tellingly

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However, that figure, tellingly, dropped in the 2025-26 season.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Even if the opposition go behind, they now know the game is far from over and Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner tellingly "kept believing" as he made smart use of his substitutions.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Ms. Gaul tellingly zeros in on her interviewees’ sense of the term as signifying “a contrast to anything imported as well as anything produced industrially or on a mass scale.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

More tellingly: If your existence is wedded to bureaucracy, it’s easy to be dispensed with and disappeared.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2025

There’s a pool table and foosball table, as well as several couches and, tellingly, boxes of Kleenex.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway