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The spirits of Lucinda Williams and Courtney Barnett run through this estimably confident 21-year-old London songwriter.

From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2018

I asked the estimably sanguine German across the aisle from me.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2013

Walton charts, estimably and perhaps unintentionally, how the hubris of "intelligence", in the "defence" of an increasingly hollow and insignificant "realm", made hardly any difference at all.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2013

He had turned her adrift, neither a wife, widow, nor maid, and here she was, one of the most estimably lovable and noble women I have ever met.

From My Brilliant Career by Franklin, Miles

Maybe, though she herself was dear, "although seventeen years my senior," "herself and estate" was estimably dearer.

From Emily Brontë by Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)