exceedingly
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of exceedingly
Example Sentences
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She’s not wrong, although the most compelling thing about that moment is witnessing how exceedingly agreeable everyone is in her orbit.
From Los Angeles Times
After father-daughter duo Fyütch and Aura V clinched their win for best children’s music album with the exceedingly wholesome “Harmony,” the two took their matching purple outfits for a spin in the Grammys press room.
From Los Angeles Times
At World’s Stage you can see local acts with a Black crowd but fewer out-of-town groups are invited because it’s exceedingly expensive to fly a band out and lodge them for days for shows.
From Los Angeles Times
In an era dominated by low-cost index funds and exchange-traded funds, Danoff managed to stand out by consistently beating the market—a feat modern academic research suggests is exceedingly rare, bordering on the impossible.
From Barron's
Given that they’re wild, the horses had never been in trailers, and were exceedingly weak, “so it was a very, very precise and gentle, slow process,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times
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