woefully
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When I was a teenager, I was woefully ignorant of my facial width-to-height ratio.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
McArthur accused those who rejected the bill of a "woefully inadequate response to the suffering and trauma experienced by dying Scots and their families".
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
Opting to pursue enterprise customers, Anthropic seemed woefully behind OpenAI in the consumer realm — until now.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 6, 2026
“If crypto jurisdiction is given to the agency, enforcement is woefully understaffed to handle it,” one says.
From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026
I know it felt woefully inadequate, but I knew he understood.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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Vocabulary from the Seventh Democratic Debate, March 6, 2016
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