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Adverb
But Tom was never that interested in jigsaw puzzles. Korin Miller, SELF, 12 Feb. 2025 Country star Ballerini, meanwhile, had served as a mentor before and filled in for coach Kelly Clarkson, but this is her inaugural season as a coach — with a spinning chair, that is. Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2025 Indeed, there is typically a market correction – that is, a 10% decline from the highs – once a year , according to Bank of America. Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025 Because the works are made on paper with pastel, dealers could feel justified in lowering his notoriously high prices, relatively speaking, that is. The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 3 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for that 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for that
Adverb
  • That proximity to real intimacy without fully succumbing to romantic feelings is so incredibly hot.
    Emily Martin, Them, 10 Feb. 2025
  • When a would-be client first dialed Andrew Howard, her timing was so serendipitous that the Jacksonville, Florida, designer thought he was being pranked by someone in his office.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • All these terms do is reduce Black experiences into inaccurate archetypes and further devalue the Black roots of countless genres.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Copyright Office added further complexity to the debate.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 11 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Toth shakes this up, soon designing very Breueresque tubular steel pieces.
    Anthony Paletta, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Her story is very similar to what Milla experiences in the show.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Indiana has taken the opposite strategy of Illinois: Braun signed his own executive order reflecting and supporting the president’s clampdown, quoting directly from Trump several times.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The Gorge portrays the story of two professional operatives, played by Teller and Anya Taylor Joy, working on opposite sides of a gorge.
    Arabella Hau, People.com, 16 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Read more: Climate Change Increases Home Runs Climate Central tracks not just average rising temperatures, but extremely hot days, which are defined as days on which the thermometer hits or exceeds 91°F.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Her father picks it up for him, but is disappointed to see what appears to be a condom imprint, making for an extremely awkward moment in front of the family.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Eley and other local residents slipped past the police officers trying to quell tensions and grabbed a flag from the fleeing demonstrators, stomping on it and ultimately setting it aflame.
    Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2025
  • She was identified as a person of interest in other murders as well, including the murder of Curtis Lind, a landlord in Vallejo, California, who was stabbed to death three days before the Vermont shooting.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • The vile memes, violence, anti-Semitism, homophobia and anti-trans hate that were so commonplace in the Proud Boys were all really just a big joke — trolling, Rehl said.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Survivor contestant Jonny Fairplay announced Saturday that his grandmother has died… really.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • How fast these farther galaxies are receding from us (which is easily read off from their color) divided by their distances gives H0.
    Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Orbeliani made the case that as a Christian nation Georgia was a natural pro-Western ally and a gateway to the Caucasus and farther east.
    Andrew North, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2016

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“That.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/that. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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