insidiously

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Insidiously, this even happens while we're fast asleep.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2025

Insidiously, though, the technologies that mediate our existence provide an illusory sense of mastery, as we tap a screen and summon brightly colored sweaters to our door.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2019

Dreaded restraint bias – Insidiously, our brains are prone to overestimating our willpower at the very points at which we’re most liable to take a fall.

From Forbes • Nov. 23, 2013

Insidiously, Makarios ordered the exchange of notes published, thereby making a 'public issue of the impending showdown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Insidiously he drew the Marquis into a quarrel, in which he himself was involved, with a hunter named Frank O'Donald and his two friends, John Reuter, known as "Dutch Wannigan," and Riley Luffsey.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann