Erik was an 18-year-old golden boy when he vanished, and the police, although they found no body, believe he killed himself. But the unsealable wound is the disappearance 30 years ago of her only child. Her estranged brother has just died, with no reconciliation between them, and her beloved husband died a couple of years before from cancer. At age 70, she’s stoic but lives with layers of grief. Tova, too, has lived in the town for most of her life, in a house built by her father. What he can’t do is escape from captivity in a small public aquarium in the fictional town of Sowell Bay, near Puget Sound. A giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus, to be precise, and he is that-the novel opens with the first of several short chapters narrated in the first person (unlike the rest of the book) by the octopus himself, who can, as he points out, do many things we don’t know he can do. Tova Sullivan’s best friend is an octopus. Send us feedback about these examples.A lonely woman discovers that sometimes humans don’t have all the answers. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'remarkably.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.

2023 Queen Camilla's style has remained remarkably consistent over the years. Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 18 Mar. 2023 The findings, across multiple fields, are remarkably consistent. 47) in the 2012 NFL draft, has been remarkably consistent throughout his career.

2023 The middle linebacker, the Seahawks second-round pick (No. 2023 The planes themselves withstand the force remarkably well, but passengers and crew–especially those who aren’t wearing seat belts at the time of the encounter and get thrown around in the cabin–can be left with significant injuries and trauma. 2023 Even though Augusta National drains remarkably well, the ground was slick and muddy, and the fairway scars were still evident from the three Georgia pines that fell Friday near the 17th tee. 2023 While inflation has come down and other economic data point to a cooling economy, the labor market has remained remarkably resilient. Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Mar. 2023 Most remarkably, everything looked light. Edgar Sandoval Tamir Kalifa, New York Times, 17 Apr. Recent Examples on the Web Both families have watched as their children have slowly, remarkably, begun to heal from the brutal force of the AR-15-style rifle that was aimed at them nearly a year ago, an attack that turned the small city of Uvalde into a symbol of the nation’s escalating excursions into inexplicable violence.

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