adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
engage
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Beneath a stunted row an tree the group was busily engaged , perhaps feasting on a rabbit carcase.
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Now that the media is busily engaged in the scrub cycle, Forbes' will no longer be an unexamined life.
work
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In what time he had left in his daily life, Alvin busily worked out the rest of the concert details.
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Soon direct action civil rights protesters were busily working with the administration to register voters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The children were painting busily at their easels.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Banks are busily designing privately placed securities that exploit the many available tax loopholes.
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Even analysts who have been busily downgrading tech stocks tend to characterize the rout as a correction, not a long-term trend.
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Mussels had colonised the remains of an ancient forest and we asked about waders, so busily taking advantage and feasting there.
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Once a drop of yellow mango juice fell on his loin-cloth and he scratched the stain busily for several minutes.
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Outside the scholars' rooms sat a line of bearded old men busily correcting specimens of Arabic calligraphy.
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Saatchi, another busily traded share, jumped 40p to 340p.
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The spot where the scientist had lain curled, busily taking photographs and taking notes, is preempted by the pilot.