spectacularly

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Dolan, the combative billionaire owner who has overseen the team since 1999, had failed repeatedly and spectacularly to construct a champion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Efforts to turn Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk into a pop culture icon after his killing last September have backfired spectacularly, with online parodists meme-ifying his image.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

The upper stage exploded spectacularly in the Indian Ocean.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

Yet he had a feel for Melville’s sentences, in which everything might go spectacularly right.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

Our tiny camp, a hundred feet above the tents of the other expeditions, was a spectacularly exposed perch.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer