sorely

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It'll be hard\nto beat Google Maps on an iphone, and I missed this sorely.

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Quick take

to a great degree; "I missed him sorely"; "we were sorely taxed to keep up with them"

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adverb

to a great degree; "I missed him sorely"; "we were sorely taxed to keep up with them"

adverb

in or as if in pain; "she moved painfully forward"; "sorely wounded"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sorely.

adverb

to a great degree; "I missed him sorely"; "we were sorely taxed to keep up with them"

adverb

in or as if in pain; "she moved painfully forward"; "sorely wounded"

Example sentences

It'll be hard\nto beat Google Maps on an iphone, and I missed this sorely.

Bradbury was a great author who will be sorely missed.

I sorely miss the unified system view of the world we had at Bell Labs, and the way things are going that seems unlikely to come back any time soon.

I have actually been working on Mailpile "altruistically" for a while, but sorely missed the ability to dedicate myself to it full time.

But it's an extremely valuable use of those resources to highlight the broader issues at play and put some human empathy, so often sorely missing, back in to the debate.

The post does quote one popular statistics aphorism, "correlation is not causation", but is sorely in need of another of them, "the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'".

Learn that lesson fast, or you'll be sorely disappointed in all your future projects, especially when you're just the guy-in-charge-of-negotiating-rates-for-business-cards...uh, I mean CEO.