Definitions

verily

[ver-uh-lee] / ˈvɛr ə li /

ADVERB

really

Synonyms

WEAK

absolutely actually admittedly as a matter of fact assuredly authentically beyond doubt categorically certainly de facto easily fairly for fair for real genuinely honestly in actuality in effect in fact in point of fact in reality indeed indubitably legitimately literally no ifs ands or buts nothing else but of course positively precisely surely truly truthfully undoubtedly unmistakably unquestionably well

Example Sentences

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Bezos serves as co-CEO alongside Vik Bajaj, a professor at Stanford’s School of Medicine who previously co-founded Google’s life sciences division, now called Verily.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

National Institutes of Health’s program to gather genomic and medical data from 1 million people, and Project Baseline from the Google offshoot Verily, which tallied information on how individuals responded to COVID-19 infection.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 2, 2024

The contract was transferred to Verily, which is owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2023

Several moonshots fared worse, with Verily, a health company, slashing 15 percent of its workers and Intrinsic, a robotics arm, downsizing by 20 percent.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2023

Verily, black and white workers did not fight each other because they hated each other, but they hated each other because they fought each other.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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