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utter

[uht-er] / ˈʌt ər /




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I have a name, a body of work, but there are people who are jobless, stripped of their pensions and left in a state of utter abandonment.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

If the U.S. healthcare system is dysfunctional, then the long-term-care situation is a complete and utter disaster.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

"I'm asking you to think, for just one minute, of the utter devastation that could have resulted," he said.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

The obituaries, social media posts and GoFundMe pages capture the utter despair of the families, though none of them reckon with the decision not to get the vitamin K shot.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

“Englishmen do everything on principle,” George Bernard Shaw once noted—and the principle that Griffith lived by was utter modesty.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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