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Follis would meet him for long dinners at HJK’s favorite Persian restaurant in Kabul, where HJK would eat one kebab after another and speak learnedly of Afghan history and culture.

From The New Yorker • May 11, 2015

Laboriously and learnedly, Dr. Wolff assembles his data.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nutritionists disagree on the merits of milk drinking, argue over the value of vitamins and debate long and learnedly over the role of diet in health and weight control.

From Time Magazine Archive

He conversed long and learnedly with men like himself, e.g.,

From Time Magazine Archive

I went to see a doctor in a nearby town, and he talked learnedly about dyspepsia.

From The Book of Life by Sinclair, Upton