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Tip the world, and the fearful and the timid, nailed securely and drearily in place, would stay put — but the footloose and bold and adventuresome would roll into L.A. and remake themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023

But as captivating as that energy can be during their finest verbal knife fights, this three-part season feels drearily longer than that count suggests.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2022

With a screen close at hand, it’s too easy to let your attention drift away from that chic Parisian bistro and into drearily quotidian scrolling.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2022

Heti’s recent novels, “Motherhood” and “How Should a Person Be?,” have been placed in a box labeled, drearily, autofiction.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2022

Old Rit said drearily, “They keep asking him questions about it. Every time he goes up to the Big House I’m scared he won’t come back.”

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry