ruly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruly
Adjective
  • Surrounded and protected by the lagoon that separates Argentario from the mainland, this amiable town feels like Madrid’s little Tuscan twin, with its sunny disposition, well developed café culture, and houses in every shade of ocher.
    Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The fine lighting, thick tablecloths, settings and stemware are first class, and the waitstaff, since my last visit a few years back, is now measurably improved in its amiable professionalism.
    John Mariani, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Jazz is much more docile and laid back, whereas Jax is high energy and was always the Alpha when playing with Jazz.
    Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Indeed, the title of the series emphasizes how her approach invokes a broader, global discourse about the female body as a container of the concepts of the domestic, the sexualized, and the docile.
    María Elena Ortiz, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Gabriel Navarro and two colleagues turned one of group theory’s biggest open conjectures into a tractable problem.
    Leila Sloman, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Medical researchers have made these images tractable for CNNs by breaking them up into much smaller fragments—square tiles, for example.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Aug. 2021
Adjective
  • The twist offered in this tale is that this dutiful and obedient AI proceeds to gobble up all the available resources on earth to maximally achieve this goal.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The twist offered in this tale is that this dutiful and obedient AI proceeds to gobble up all the available resources on earth to maximally achieve this goal.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Your value lies in being pretty, silent, submissive and unfailingly supportive of men.
    Marie Bostwick, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Trump was demanding deference from Zelenskyy to show his inferior and submissive position as a recipient of U.S. aid and military support.
    Shannon Bow O'Brien, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The obliging royalty would lift their hems and give the crowd a glimpse of their sneakers and cowboy boots.
    Jill Robbins, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2025
  • It was perfectly weighted for an obliging Diaz, who gratefully tapped it in from just outside the six-yard box.
    Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Senate unanimously confirmed Haugh to his post in December 2023, and Republicans and Democrats alike were broadly deferential to him during his marathon testimony last month before the House and Senate intelligence committees.
    Josh Meyer, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Newsom’s deferential tone toward far-right guests like Charlie Kirk and Michael Savage—including agreeing with Kirk’s stance on banning transgender athletes from women’s sports—has alienated progressive allies and LGBTQ+ advocates, undermining his reputation as a champion of LGBTQ+ rights[1][7][9].
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • That’s because police have used the state of exception to sweep up street vendors, who’ve been much more compliant with eviction notices ever since.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In this case two individuals were within a few feet of an armed, non compliant individual.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
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“Ruly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruly. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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