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It plays out cheerily as a kind of vaudeville show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

"Have you got a bad back?" the receptionist asked cheerily.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2024

The two could civilly debate the issues of the day while cheerily disagreeing with each other—serving as a model of bipartisan debate and domesticity.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2024

The director of the board of elections, Sheila Ollis, picked up the phone cheerily, even though Hurricane Helene wiped out 14 out of 19 polling stations and upended much of her careful planning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024

"I suppose you have lots and lots of affairs in Cambridge," I told Irwin cheerily, as I stuck a snail with a pin in one of Cambridge's determinedly French restaurants.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath


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