tellingly

Example Sentences

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But the Newcastle head coach tellingly rued the absence of another midfielder post-match.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

Ms. Gaul tellingly zeros in on her interviewees’ sense of the term as signifying “a contrast to anything imported as well as anything produced industrially or on a mass scale.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

He was speaking to his manager, Spencer Brown, who tellingly replied: "No, you're still fighting him."

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2024

Charles, tellingly, doesn’t stand out in his portrait; he is receding into it.

From Salon • May 17, 2024

The next day, as we prepared to head to second mess, which was what they tellingly called lunch, I noticed the black man from the night before standing next to Colonel Batt.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore