searchingly

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Even as Ms. Back writes searchingly and evocatively about her suffering, she finds that narrative prose cannot depict the “black pit of depression, a landscape marked by lacunae.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

One song, “Grandmother,” features Laraaji singing wildly and searchingly over the top of Lenker’s vocals.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

Stanley and M looked searchingly at each other.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2023

Sprouting from the dark soil is an animatronic daisy, which moves searchingly to music that begins as a dirge and swells to something anticipatory.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2023

He looked searchingly at the towering mountains—ridge after ridge after ridge until at last there was the ocean.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck