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strikingly

[strahy-king-lee] / ˈstraɪ kɪŋ li /












ADVERB
vividly
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They were strikingly lit, making them come alive.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

If the truth about manhood is what Gyllenhaal has been seeking, whatever revelations he’s come to over the last six years look strikingly familiar.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

"I thought it was strikingly large," he said.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

The title track appears in five iterations, and each conveys a strikingly different mood.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

After inspecting the site itself—a wet, peaty bank strikingly unlike the sere desert home of Folsom and Clovis—the archaeologists ended up at a dimly lighted cantina with the appropriate name of La Caverna.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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