in all seriousness
Example Sentences
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“I can’t,” the author replied in all seriousness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
He handed me a brown paper bag — mind you, just a regular lunch-size kraft paper bag that was still flat and folded — and in all seriousness said, “Just in case you need it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2024
“We are preparing for this in all seriousness, and we have several backup plans,” Aaltonen-Forsell said.
From Reuters • May 5, 2022
People who start businesses are now referred to, in all seriousness, as "job creators."
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2021
In the nineteenth century it was claimed, in all seriousness, that Columbus’s contemporaries thought the world was flat and expected him to sail over the edge.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
