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dearly

adverb as in extremely

adverb as in lovingly

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Penelope waited for some sort of reaction, for the children dearly loved biscuits, but three stoic faces avoided her gaze.

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No doubt he was still thinking about the possibility of a bone, for he dearly loved to gnaw.

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“Never fear, somehow we will figure out who your parents are,” she so dearly wanted to tell them.

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Wright told reporters that Beam was “someone I could confide in, someone that I love dearly.”

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Tesla shareholders were never likely to risk the CEO walking away, but there’s another thing he dearly wants—the car maker to invest in his xAI artificial-intelligence start-up amid a fiercely competitive AI spending race.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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