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As has become the norm, the draw is arranged so that fierce rivals England and Australia, and more lucratively, India and Pakistan meet in the first round.

From BBC • May 31, 2024

Holdeman points to the skilled and lucratively paid Puget Sound Pilots, who meet thousands of ships offshore from Port Angeles, guiding them through the local waterways.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2024

But perhaps most significantly — and lucratively — the jerseys themselves are a little different.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2021

Surely, it must be unnerving to discover that a colleague has lied repeatedly, elaborately and lucratively about his life.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2019

"This arrangement affords my brother opportunities of exercise and recreation, without diminishing our profits; and my time, though not less constantly, is more agreeably, as well as more lucratively, employed than formerly."

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden