promisingly

adverb

as in favorably

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Recent Examples of promisingly The year didn't start promisingly. — Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025 Gray threw six innings on 78 pitches, allowed one run with two hits and one walk, and most promisingly struck out a season-high six batters. — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 14 May 2026 More promisingly, grocery inflation looks to have peaked as well, with August’s release seeing the first deceleration since January. — John Choong, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025 To be fair, things start promisingly enough, instantly raising the pulses with a dramatic seabound scene where Claflin’s dashing sailor Edmond Dantès — at the behest of his dying captain — must navigate their ship through a violent storm. — Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026 The match started out promisingly for Capistrano Valley Christian (14-22-1) when McKenzie Meserve opened the first set serving three consecutive aces. — Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 23 Nov. 2025 The 22-year-old, who had his first international call-up last year, has had a mixed spell in Yorkshire, having started promisingly before a three-game ban after being sent off for a dangerous challenge in a 3-1 defeat by Barnsley at the end of August. — Elias Burke, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026 Peter Hedges’s drama about a young recovering addict (Lucas Hedges) coming back unannounced to his family starts off promisingly, with Roberts’s supportive but wary character trying to manage her complicated feelings about her son’s return. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025 The film opens very promisingly though with a much more up to date takeoff on this year’s Best Picture Oscar winner, One Battle After Another in the form of Teyana Taylor sitting at a bar playing her sassy self, shouting Viva Le Revolution! — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 4 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for promisingly
  1. favorably
  2. auspiciously
  3. perfectly
  4. properly
  5. rightly
Adverb
  • Only 42% of Democrats viewed capitalism favorably, while 66% had a positive view of socialism.
    — Steven Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • The poll found that both younger and older Democrats have warmed slightly on socialism since 2010, but Democrats under age 50 are much less likely to view capitalism favorably.
    — Steven Sloan, Fortune, 2 July 2026
Definition of favorably
Adverb
  • His stint began auspiciously with an encounter with the late owner George Steinbrenner in a hotel elevator in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • Carlson’s started auspiciously.
    — Matt Kawahara, Houston Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2026
Definition of auspiciously
Adverb
  • All the President’s Men' (1976) Not only an American classic, but likely the only movie where a close-up of a busy typewriter is a perfectly satisfying ending.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Cheesy, salty, and perfectly spicy, these Southern favorites will be the first snack snatched up at your gathering.
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
Definition of perfectly
Adverb
  • The chronic disease, which impairs the body’s ability to properly regulate blood sugar, contributed to 94,445 deaths that year.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • Consoles, controllers, accessories, weird VR gloves that never worked properly, but mostly the games themselves.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 2 July 2026
Definition of properly
Adverb
  • Many leaders are rightly enthusiastic about how AI can help reduce burnout, eliminate drudgery and free people up for more meaningful work.
    — Carrie Varoquiers, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Today, the Court rightly rejected efforts to undermine that core protection and instead upheld a principle that is essential to our democracy.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Definition of rightly

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