Exceedingly
Rather
Rather adverb - By choice or preference.
Exceedingly and rather are semantically related in extremely topic. Sometimes you can use "Exceedingly" instead an adverb "Rather", if it concerns topics such as fairly.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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He's a massive drunkard and Brilliant, but Lazy - in that he'd rather build an exceedingly-powerful robot to be his lab assistant rather than do the chores himself.
Source: Bunny-Ears Lawyer - Very often for exceedingly long periods of time, sometimes for extremely minor things, and sometimes for doing rather bizarrely cruel things (Such as causing an earthquake at school, breaking teachers legs, getting faculty arrested...)
Source: You Are Grounded - The Pirates of Dark Water featured dragons (or rather "Dagrons"), but they were apparently exceedingly rare.
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