forcefully
adverb
force·ful·ly
ˈfȯrs-fə-lē 
: in a forceful, powerful, or emphatic manner
speaking forcefully
pushing forcefully through the crowd
She forcefully denied the charges.
Congestive heart failure develops when the heart becomes too weak to pump forcefully enough.—
Paul G. Donohue
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Examples of forcefully in a Sentence
shut the door a little too forcefully and broke the glass
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Manchin forcefully advocated for the Democratic Party to hold an open convention to choose a presidential nominee, implicitly arguing that Harris should not be anointed as Biden’s replacement.
—Maegan Vazquez, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
What’s more, moderate Democrats and Republicans have a responsibility to forcefully call out the people in their respective parties who are making these kinds of reckless remarks, rather than enabling them with their silence.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2024
Come Sunday, Johnson will have officially lasted longer than his predecessor who was forcefully removed from his post last fall.
—Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 19 July 2024
When the Justice Department shut down a secret inquiry into allegations that drug traffickers had funded the first presidential campaign of Mexico’s leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, officials in Washington closed the case forcefully.
—Tim Golden, ProPublica, 19 July 2024
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Maegan Vazquez, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
What’s more, moderate Democrats and Republicans have a responsibility to forcefully call out the people in their respective parties who are making these kinds of reckless remarks, rather than enabling them with their silence.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2024
Come Sunday, Johnson will have officially lasted longer than his predecessor who was forcefully removed from his post last fall.
—Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 19 July 2024
When the Justice Department shut down a secret inquiry into allegations that drug traffickers had funded the first presidential campaign of Mexico’s leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, officials in Washington closed the case forcefully.
—Tim Golden, ProPublica, 19 July 2024
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“Forcefully.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forcefully. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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