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busily

adverb

Definition of busily

as in actively

in a manner involving great or constant activity the deadline is in two days, so everyone in the department has been working busily

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Recent Examples of busily Alabama has been busily demonstrating that the reverse is true, following a string of hideous botched lethal injection executions with a series of no less gruesome executions with nitrogen suffocation. — Maya Foa, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 Behind the bar, yeast busily converted sugars into alcohol inside giant stainless steel fermentation tanks. — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2026 Concepción López Villegas was busily preparing her seaside restaurant for what may come. — Megan Janetsky, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026 Not to be outdone, math-magicians on Capitol Hill have been busily subtracting workdays. — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026 That concision is evident in an almost brutally economical edit and in sharp, precise writing which provides narrative elements and deftly sketches character before moving busily on. — Caspar Salmon, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026 No wonder More had so many imitators, who set about busily redrawing their own maps of the world. — Carline Tromp, The Dial, 18 Aug. 2026 As Scott Frost took to the practice field Monday to open UCF’s preseason football camp, construction workers a few hundred yards away busily put the finishing touches on the Roth Tower expansion at the Acrisure Bounce House Stadium. — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026 The British are busily removing Winston Churchill from their banknotes, replacing him with an engraving of a hedgehog. — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026

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Police said that Traffic Homicide Detectives also responded to the scene and continue to actively investigate the incident.

— Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Or maybe Kosmos 2612 was actively interfering with ICEYE-X36 in some way — messing with its sensors, perhaps, or blocking or intercepting its communications with the ground.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of actively

Adverb

In an update, King said that his investigators were working diligently to learn what led to the death of 42-year-old Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem onboard the ride, and will continue to review the evidence, equipment, and relevant documentation.

— Dan Raby, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Since the dawn of time, the experts tell us, those who got ahead financially lived within their means, saved diligently and spent and invested carefully.

— Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of diligently

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