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Recent Examples of assertively
Taste and add salt and pepper; the milk should be assertively seasoned.
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CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
These early reports highlight how the mode may behave more assertively than before.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025
With the exception of SHoP’s assertively detailed, if financially troubled, extravaganza, the pall of clunkism has enveloped even projects that aspire to high design.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2025
His confrontational style inspired a generation of young conservatives to assertively defend their values and to mock liberals, even in sometimes incendiary ways.
—Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
These early reports highlight how the mode may behave more assertively than before.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025
With the exception of SHoP’s assertively detailed, if financially troubled, extravaganza, the pall of clunkism has enveloped even projects that aspire to high design.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2025
His confrontational style inspired a generation of young conservatives to assertively defend their values and to mock liberals, even in sometimes incendiary ways.
—Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assertively
Adverb
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Act aggressively, now, and the nation can prevent and better control chronic disease, avert hundreds of thousands of heart attacks, strokes and kidney failures, and flatten healthcare inflation.—
Robert Pearl,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Maricopa prosecutors have identified fentanyl awareness as one of their top initiatives and are aggressively using a new state law to go after dealers whose drugs kill people.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
20 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The high-profile federal deployment has been strongly opposed by state and local leaders, including Walz, Ellison and Frey, and angered many local residents, who have denounced actions and operations by federal agents as heavy-handed and indiscriminate.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
20 Jan. 2026
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The pattern of this movement strongly suggests ‘smart money’ positioning for an ongoing uptrend.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Miya’s landlord was able to remediate the restaurant’s building and Tewasart determinedly reopened in May, when at first there were few customers around to serve.—
Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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Since its debut, the initiative has been quietly but determinedly building physical bases in Lagos and Kenya, creating tangible spaces where female artists, producers, and engineers can access resources that Tems herself had to fight to find.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
4 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Fundholz was speaking more firmly and resolutely than before.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Dec. 2025
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Their three arcs form a sweeping epic of sapphic immortality — resolutely old-fashioned in detail but thrillingly contemporary in the telling.—
Emma Alpern,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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Instead, dip a cloth or cotton balls in acetone and blot firmly on the remaining polish.—
Emily Benda Gaylord,
The Spruce,
11 Jan. 2026
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His other go-to bogeyman, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, is now firmly in his lame-duck era as his term ends this spring.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
11 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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On Thanksgiving weekend in Washington, the script felt grimly familiar.—
Newsweek Editors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Dec. 2025
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But now that all writers are more or less required to be influencers, the debate over the right way to post your poems seems grimly prescient.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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The shiny chain mail material and bright apple green shade give the whole look a decidedly 2000s vibe.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
12 Jan. 2026
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Williams is a decidedly big dog, both in terms of his actual size (6-foot-3, 290 pounds) and his status as a veteran of last year’s Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.—
Steve Buckley,
New York Times,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Assertively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assertively. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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