alertly
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The filly broke alertly and stayed near the front before going to the lead in midstretch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
Arsenal recovered and went close when Frida Maanum's powerful strike was beaten over the crossbar by Laws, and substitute Victoria Pelova's close-range strike was alertly blocked by Gemma Bonner.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2023
Jason Heyward lofted a sacrifice fly to right that Kyle Tucker made a sliding catch of in the gap, Freeman scoring to trim the deficit to 7-6 and Smith alertly tagging and taking third.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2023
Taylor then alertly sprinted to second base when he saw it had been left uncovered.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2023
The man at the check-in desk looked at our tickets to Atlanta and our packs and said—quite alertly, I thought, for a person wearing a shortsleeve shirt in winter—“You fellows hiking the Appalachian Trail?”
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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