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Recent Examples of coldly
Dan’s always been the bad guy, but his ability to coldly kill his own brother brings his villain status to a new level.
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Ew Staff,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 June 2026
During one particularly strange scene, Eisenhower coldly dismisses a staff member’s request to check on a patient at a nearby hospital.
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Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
26 May 2026
Guardiola famously sidelined Yaya Toure, but others later felt that David Silva, Aguero and Fernandinho were treated coldly in their final seasons, despite their status.
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Sam Lee,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
Lili Reinhart’s coldly overbearing Apple (with lucious, flaming red hair) is their ringleader, Alexandra Shipp’s Fig is a science genius who lost her personality in a swirl of people pleasing, and Victoria Pedretti’s mentally fragile Cherry is Apple’s resident punching bag and fixer-upper project.
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Jada Yuan,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2026
Duvall possessed a Brando-like intensity in the Seventies, whether as the coldly strategic Tom Hagen in the Godfather pictures or as Frank Hackett, the soulless, hotheaded executive in Sidney Lumet’s bruising satire Network.
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Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
16 Feb. 2026
The pair felt that their competitive careers had been coldly cut short.
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Natasha O'Neill,
Vanity Fair,
3 Feb. 2026
That focus on efficiency included a coldly logical approach to salary-cap management, and an update of the bruising defense that Belichick had pioneered with 49ers old rivals, the 1980s iteration of the New York Giants.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2026
Tatiana, a country girl, falls for our titular misanthrope and makes the foolish decision to write him a letter, only to be coldly rejected.
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Rachel Howard,
San Francisco Chronicle,
24 Jan. 2026
Ew Staff,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 June 2026
During one particularly strange scene, Eisenhower coldly dismisses a staff member’s request to check on a patient at a nearby hospital.
—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
26 May 2026
Guardiola famously sidelined Yaya Toure, but others later felt that David Silva, Aguero and Fernandinho were treated coldly in their final seasons, despite their status.
—
Sam Lee,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
Lili Reinhart’s coldly overbearing Apple (with lucious, flaming red hair) is their ringleader, Alexandra Shipp’s Fig is a science genius who lost her personality in a swirl of people pleasing, and Victoria Pedretti’s mentally fragile Cherry is Apple’s resident punching bag and fixer-upper project.
—
Jada Yuan,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2026
Duvall possessed a Brando-like intensity in the Seventies, whether as the coldly strategic Tom Hagen in the Godfather pictures or as Frank Hackett, the soulless, hotheaded executive in Sidney Lumet’s bruising satire Network.
—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
16 Feb. 2026
The pair felt that their competitive careers had been coldly cut short.
—
Natasha O'Neill,
Vanity Fair,
3 Feb. 2026
That focus on efficiency included a coldly logical approach to salary-cap management, and an update of the bruising defense that Belichick had pioneered with 49ers old rivals, the 1980s iteration of the New York Giants.
—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2026
Tatiana, a country girl, falls for our titular misanthrope and makes the foolish decision to write him a letter, only to be coldly rejected.
—
Rachel Howard,
San Francisco Chronicle,
24 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coldly
coolly
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The midfielder who plays professionally at nearby Los Angeles FC coolly chested it down and blasted it off the bounce into the bottom corner of Ronwen Williams’ net before sprinting away to celebrate with Canada’s bench in the second minute of second-half stoppage time.
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Ousmane Dembele — France/Paris Saint-Germain (+8) Finally scored his first career goal at a major tournament for France against Iraq, and also pounced upon a terrible defensive mix-up to coolly give Mbappe a tap-in.
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“Coldly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coldly. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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