refreshingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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There isn’t anywhere else that one can walk into and immediately satisfy the social instinct among a convivial and refreshingly diverse clientele in what is becoming an increasingly homogenized locality.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Mr. Cornyn, in that sense, is a refreshingly Madisonian figure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Shopping here in the air-conditioned comfort of the store, with trial rooms, attendants and scratch cards offering discounts on her next purchase, is a refreshingly new experience for Alka.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026
The film moves between the two in a sweeping, polyphonic narrative blending performances by professional and amateur actors, portraying a multifaceted Franco-African community refreshingly free from stereotypes.
From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026
“Your approach to history is so vital, so contemporary, so refreshingly unorthodox.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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