handsomely
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Villa won but could have drawn - or equally triumphed more handsomely - during a game which went from comfortable to edgy to relief.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
In the primary, Mr. El-Sayed won handsomely in college towns, but his opponent outperformed him comfortably among black voters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
That strategy has paid off spectacularly -- coding is the rare AI skill that users are willing to pay handsomely for.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
That investment and others in the AI and tech sectors have paid off handsomely, but pivoting to a legacy NBA team with a locked-in elevated financial floor could be prudent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
The penguin chicks, when they began to hatch, were not so handsomely marked as their mother and father.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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