aptly
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And you have to forge a strong bond with the fans - from Tony Hibbert to Ledley King, and even aptly named Celtic stalwart Paul McStay, many become cult heroes or club legends.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
The nature of the threat posed by sand pits was put aptly by golf writer Aleck Bauer in 1913: “Bunkers are not intended to be pleasure grounds but places of repentance.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
He aptly describes the projectors’ beams of luminosity as “light sculptures.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
Your chaser is Alison McAlpine’s appealing, aptly titled “Perfectly a Strangeness,” sans humans, but starring three donkeys in an unnamed desert happening upon a cluster of hilltop observatories.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
Dot, aptly named, was trying to keep up, galloping awkwardly with the use of only one front paw.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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