AGGRESSIVELY Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

aggressively

adverb

Definition of aggressively

as in strongly

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Recent Examples of aggressively Instead of focusing on its own FAST offerings, Prime Video is aggressively expanding its more lucrative Prime Video Channels. — Rick Ellis, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 At the 2024 Monterey Historic races, he was seen driving the 250 P aggressively around the demanding Laguna Seca track. — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 31 July 2026 The attackers suddenly jumped out of a white tow truck with a dog and then moved aggressively towards the crew. — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 31 July 2026 However, Meta needs ample compute capacity to satisfy its own AI ambitions, especially as the company begins aggressively rolling out new models under the leadership of AI chief Alexandr Wang. — Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 30 July 2026 Following the campaign, Rome aggressively eradicated and restructured local settlements, while instituting repressive laws designed to assimilate the area into the greater empire. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 July 2026 Western automakers used to generate substantial profits in China; those profits are disappearing as Chinese manufacturers take over their home market and aggressively expand everywhere else. — Philipp Kampshoff, Fortune, 30 July 2026 Beijing has made biotechnology a strategic priority and is investing aggressively in artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, advanced biomanufacturing, gene therapies, and precision medicine. — David Shulkin, STAT, 29 July 2026 Or at least it should get pushed more aggressively by the FBI. — Joel Feder, The Drive, 29 July 2026

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That so many teams were capable of winning races showed how well the crews performed, especially considering the breeze was again blowing strongly across the Solent, around 17 knots and sometimes gusting over 20.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 26 July 2026
Star first baseman Bryce Harper has strongly advocated for aggressive trade deadline moves, suggesting the team acquire expensive veterans.

— Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of strongly

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Sinner expects a lack of rhythm and for Zverev to put their past aside and come out assertively.

— Ava Wallace, New York Times, 12 July 2026
After sitting a bit on the sidelines in the early days of the generative AI boom, risk-adverse finance departments are more assertively using these tools, with 75% reporting using AI compared to just 30% two years ago.

— John Kell, Fortune, 20 May 2026

Definition of assertively

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But despite interest from the mainstream, Songer remains resolutely independent.

— Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2026
Japan’s largest studio and dominant theatrical exhibitor — home of Godzilla and Seven Samurai — has also long been, like so much of corporate Japan, cautious, deliberate and resolutely domestic in its outlook.

— Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026

Definition of resolutely

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In the wake of the disaster, the survivors' roles are reversed in grimly funny ways.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 17 July 2026
Tuchel’s approach might, at least, be grimly appropriate for a tournament whose organizers would surely like everyone to focus on the action, and ignore the stench of corruption and xenophobia in the air.

— Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 18 June 2026

Definition of grimly

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Enzo Fernandez, who already was booked for a first-half yellow card, viciously tackled Spanish defender Pau Cubarsí.

— Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026
Yet somehow, two decades later, the viciously antisemitic Vichy regime planted itself in power; a shocking betrayal by France of some of its most loyal and generous supporters, in a dehumanizing toxic swamp of suspicion, judgment, envy.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026

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