exceedingly
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of exceedingly
Example Sentences
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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
And going forward, the prospects for boosting California’s stretched-thin newsrooms look exceedingly dim.
From Los Angeles Times
As metaphors for the American dream go, Gabriel Tallent’s taut and engrossing second novel, “Crux,” is exceedingly direct: It’s literally a book about climbing.
From Los Angeles Times
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