Example Sentences

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The NBA has worked to counteract the incentives to tank, including by smoothing the odds of that lottery to narrow the odds between the merely bad teams and the abjectly awful ones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Will Bayern keep going in Europe in a season when Germany’s top club has abjectly surrendered its Bundesliga title?

From Seattle Times • Apr. 14, 2024

One offender this week did something most un-Trump like: He apologized, abjectly and unreservedly.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2022

It’s a weird lens to consider something as abjectly fanciful as this, but it is a totally normal way to consider social media: How much of this is a put-on?

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2020

Every chair sank several inches at the lightest touch, foam and down surrendering abjectly to any pressure.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole