refreshingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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The idea that AI won’t cannibalize artists and their work on a massive scale is refreshingly utopian, but in many ways so was the fair itself.
From Los Angeles Times
There isn’t anywhere else that one can walk into and immediately satisfy the social instinct among a convivial and refreshingly diverse clientele in what is becoming an increasingly homogenized locality.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. Stuart is an outstanding, enthusiastic and refreshingly self-aware scholar.
“Hauser’s pre-meeting messaging was refreshingly direct, but the RBA needs to make it clear that their tolerance for inflation remaining above target for an extended period of time is over,” Simon said.
I’m close to my dad, and my dad is, I would also say a vulnerability cheerleader, and a very refreshingly emotional Englishman.
From Los Angeles Times
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