as in nicely
in a pleasing way
the rehearsals were going swimmingly until half the cast came down with the flu
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Recent Examples of swimmingly
Graphically, these curved lines cross to represent a fish shape, but this doesn’t always go swimmingly.
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Jeffrey Hammond, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Drew McIntyre has trolled his way to the top of WWE, while CM Punk’s redemption tour has gone swimmingly after a bitter divorce in 2014.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
The pivot to health care had been going swimmingly until the 2021 breathing machine debacle.
—Byphil Wahba, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
Other than that, the first few shots had gone swimmingly.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 30 Sep. 2024
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Jeffrey Hammond, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Drew McIntyre has trolled his way to the top of WWE, while CM Punk’s redemption tour has gone swimmingly after a bitter divorce in 2014.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
The pivot to health care had been going swimmingly until the 2021 breathing machine debacle.
—Byphil Wahba, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
Other than that, the first few shots had gone swimmingly.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swimmingly
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The police association's and department's Facebook pages include pictures from past years' toy drives as well.Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
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In fact, there probably are scads of people who won’t mind shelling out a few more bucks, if only to see how many of their favorite survivors — well, continue to survive.Joe Leydon, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
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On Pete Hegseth and John Tower; the Crusades and ‘God wills it’; a late Michigan great; and more The nomination of Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defense, and the controversies surrounding that nomination, have made some of us think back to the Tower nomination.Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Dec. 2024
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Dodgers Robert Vargas began Fernando Valenzuela mural on the day the Dodgers great died.Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Zero Corsa Summer tires made the most of its finely tuned chassis, possessing immense cornering grip and stability.Peter Nelson, The Verge, 23 Dec. 2024
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Make cookie crumb crust: Pulse cookies in a food processor until finely ground, 12 to 18 pulses.Tricia Manzanero Stuedeman, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2024
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Everything ended happily, with one little boy and one little book.Erik Pedersen, Orange County Register, 27 Dec. 2024
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Hawksbill sea turtles happily flap through the world’s tropical oceans with bellies full of glass-like fragments.Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Swimmingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swimmingly. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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