vertiginously

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My command might have been a planet flying vertiginously on its appointed path in a space of infinite silence.

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  • To say that Senator Obama has not thought through the implications of his vertiginously shifting positions is to err on the side of charity; in fact they give every appearance of having been adopted without any systematic thought whatsoever.
  • In the months after the September 2006 certification of Calderon's fraudulent election, state violence against journalists and social movements has escalated vertiginously. —  The Narco News Bulletin
  • Analysts estimate that if he should ever make good on that threat the price, which has already risen vertiginously, would spiral even farther upward. —  The New Yorker
  • Living in London I meet no-one who is not vertiginously interesting, so it can't be the craving for novelty which drives me out of England, pursued by every devil of claustrophobia. —  New Statesman
  • A few Islamic banks were in the habit of offering vertiginously high "profits".
 

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