Example Sentences

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Could he be waiting for the summit to perhaps offer a supposedly magnanimously return to the grain deal, on slightly tweaked terms?

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2023

Highlights of Frumkin’s dark and cutting humor include an Elon Musk-esque billionaire inventor who magnanimously hands out drones to children begging for money and a tabloid referring to Orson as “L. Ron Hotboy.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2023

Cautious Lina can find a way to worry about anything, but magnanimously, she agrees to spend her summer in Rome.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2022

Then, after England’s 3-1 win against Egypt at Wembley in March, Terry finally broke his silence to magnanimously declare the crisis over.

From The Guardian • May 3, 2020

Bunny waved his hand magnanimously and turned over the check, rummaging in a pocket as he studied it.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt