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  • adverb In a rotund way.

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  • adverb in a sonorous manner

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Examples

  • The gravy it produces is also a rather perfect kind of gravy, but do take care to drain off any extra fat - not doing so might just send some of you rotundly plummeting over the heart-attack precipice.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Annemarie 2008

  • The gravy it produces is also a rather perfect kind of gravy, but do take care to drain off any extra fat - not doing so might just send some of you rotundly plummeting over the heart-attack precipice.

    My Favorite Roast Annemarie 2008

  • “Mr. and Mrs. Ranald Stewart,” enunciates Jenkins rotundly, though not with the rotundity he applies to a title.

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

  • “Mr. and Mrs. Ranald Stewart,” enunciates Jenkins rotundly, though not with the rotundity he applies to a title.

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

  • “Mr. and Mrs. Ranald Stewart,” enunciates Jenkins rotundly, though not with the rotundity he applies to a title.

    Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

  • "Need I put a name to this patriot and hero who has won the unbounded love and loyalty of my youth?" he asked rotundly.

    Steve Yeager William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • I could imagine that a man with something costly and fragile to conceal, would roll through life clumsily and rotundly like an old, green, heavily-hooped wine-cask: the refinement of his shame requiring it to be so.

    Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

  • Abstractedly are secretly regenerate and odd debit as unreservedly that iphigenia me prussian of unenergetically and rotundly of the adulterating upstage, your polliwog monroe mauve as pitifully. the daunting amputation upwards is slack and astonishingly of the eschrichtius was sifter up minotaur ago, the record collect scotch, wrinkly, and correctly.

    Rational Review 2009

  • A wave would swell, boil with foam, and topple rotundly, spreading and running up on the shingle.

    Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day 2008

  • In our NAS panel presentation and perhaps before, I’d speculated that MBH98 confidence intervals, rotundly described in MBH98 as “self-consistently estimated” were nothing other than twice the standard error of the overfitted calibration ...

    2006 April « Climate Audit 2006

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