actively

as in diligently
in a manner involving great or constant activity he's been working actively toward the goal of opening his own restaurant

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Recent Examples of actively Unlike cameras, lidar actively measures distance, allowing vehicles to build a detailed depth map of the road ahead. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2026 Prostate biopsies are lucrative for urologists, who can do them in their practice and therefore have an incentive to order them, and so is finding clinically insignificant cancers that can be actively monitored, potentially through further biopsies. Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 5 Aug. 2026 At the same time, this very condition, which also has to do with rapt attention, even fascination, is actively projected in every direction. Jan Tumlir, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2026 Local Color founder and Executive Director Erin Salazar will be honored alongside Adams with the History Maker award, which is given to an individual who is actively involved in charting San Jose’s present and future. Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026 Peyton is endorsed by several labor and political groups and is actively involved at Macedonia Baptist Church. Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026 Level 3, the lowest level of emergency response, means the agency is actively monitoring and working on a situation, although the risk to the general public is low. Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2026 This cements the sense that the club are heading into a new era, with a young manager leading what will be a young and energetic team, stocked with players who actively want to be on Tyneside. Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2026 But longevity is a near-universal pursuit; HEALTH surveyed 1,000 Americans and learned 99% of them are actively focused on some element of healthy aging. Anisa Arsenault, HEALTH, 4 Aug. 2026
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Adverb
  • His only son was stricken with polio and sat in a dark old house all day long diligently engraving seals.
    Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Infurna said sometimes the biggest thing an individual can do is simply reach out and diligently pursue connection.
    Taylor Seely, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • Lederberg and other exobiologists sought funding and support for exobiological research and advocated vigorously for spacecraft sterilization.
    Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 30 July 2026
  • Congressman Miller will continue to vigorously defend his reputation against false and reckless allegations designed to inflame public opinion rather than reflect reality.
    Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026
Adverb
  • As Scott Frost took to the practice field Monday to open UCF’s preseason football camp, construction workers a few hundred yards away busily put the finishing touches on the Roth Tower expansion at the Acrisure Bounce House Stadium.
    Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The British are busily removing Winston Churchill from their banknotes, replacing him with an engraving of a hedgehog.
    Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026

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“Actively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/actively. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.

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