quietly
Britishadverb
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in a quiet manner
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between you and me; confidentially
Example Sentences
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Her candor offers rare visibility into a disability that often progresses quietly and privately for millions.
From Salon
American and Russian business leaders were quietly anticipating that Witkoff and Dmitriev would deliver, positioning their companies to profit from peace.
But the real frontier of robotics isn’t about building machines that look like us—it’s about designing ones that quietly make our industries more efficient.
Hunter in April quietly dropped his nonsense IRS lawsuit.
The writer lived and worked in her childhood home in Jackson, Miss.—tending to her camellias, doting on her nieces and quietly presiding for many years as the matriarch of Southern letters.
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