as in strongly
in a vigorous and forceful manner
began to row powerfully toward the shore
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Recent Examples of powerfully
Most significantly, the film's two standout leads popped in the acting categories: Cynthia Erivo's powerfully rousing performance as outsider Elphaba is worth that best actress entry, while Ariana Grande earned a supporting actress nod as the hair-whipping, doe-eyed Glinda.
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
But in recent years, investigators have uncovered chemical and electrical cross talk between neurons and cancer cells that powerfully fuel a tumor’s growth.
—Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025
But more crucially, the body is rendered as a consistently fraught site on which identity is fomented and complicated, turning Schimberg’s film into a slyly constructed and powerfully caustic doppelgänger tale.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
These are all ways of taking away people’s power because dance has something that powerfully connects us and connects communities, connects us back to the earth.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
But in recent years, investigators have uncovered chemical and electrical cross talk between neurons and cancer cells that powerfully fuel a tumor’s growth.
—Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025
But more crucially, the body is rendered as a consistently fraught site on which identity is fomented and complicated, turning Schimberg’s film into a slyly constructed and powerfully caustic doppelgänger tale.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
These are all ways of taking away people’s power because dance has something that powerfully connects us and connects communities, connects us back to the earth.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for powerfully
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With Rhodes strongly favored to decline The Rock’s offer, there was also a possibility of Rock finding his own Manchurian champion to do his bidding against Rhodes.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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Sporting responded strongly after conceding the two goals.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
2 Mar. 2025
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The surviving record is contradictory about how vigorously prosecutors tried to find Chinese witnesses.—
Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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Our ideals—as well as our bodies—need to be guarded by a wall of allies that fight vigorously with us against any foe.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
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Jane’s fiercely unforgiving tone was adopted by militant Irish nationalists for whom the famine stood as the ultimate proof of English perfidy.—
Fintan O'Toole,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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In a fiercely divided country, many saw the cutbacks through their own political lens.—
Matt Sedensky,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2025
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But the consequences of inaction go beyond just public frustration: As of right now, the burden of implementing Prop. 36 has solely fallen on law enforcement and local government who are working hard to address rising crime and drug addiction without the necessary resources.—
Roger Niello,
The Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2025
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The market's recent slump has hit shares of tech giant Nvidia and some other formerly high-flying areas of the market particularly hard.—
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4 Mar. 2025
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Congressional Republicans’ responses to Trump’s outrageous comments were largely muted even as a few senators like Thom Tillis came out forcefully in defense of Ukraine and against Vladimir Putin.—
Mordechai Gordon,
Hartford Courant,
28 Feb. 2025
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Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration.—
Ashley Oliver,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Powerfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/powerfully. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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