drastically
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And that gap can drastically affect learning outcomes or behavior in school.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
If there’s any hope of moving forward on a human, one-to-one level, how we treat each other must be drastically reexamined.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
He says his mum and brother "explicitly asked the question about service charges", but they were reassured that they were unlikely to increase drastically.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
And even within the strait, there are particular challenges that convoys could struggle with -- for one, the narrowness of the channel drastically reduces the time a warship might have to stop an attack.
From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026
In some mutants, whole segments of the embryo disappeared, or the thorax or abdominal compartments were drastically shortened—analogous to a human fetus born with no middle or with no hind segment.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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