as in absolutely
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for categorically
Adverb
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There's not enough — there will never be and should not be enough — employees for a one-on-one situation, although my father was absolutely convinced that someone at the IRS every year looked at his return.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025 -
Having said that, returning from a serious ankle injury is absolutely something to be concerned about.—
Brad Biggs,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2025
Adverb
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With a freeze in place, nobody, not even you, can open a new credit account in your name.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
7 June 2025
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Then there’s this issue that Springsteen emphatically tried to answer in Liverpool this week: Does the rough but noble America he’s been mythologizing for 50 years even exist anymore?—
Stephen Collinson,
CNN Money,
7 June 2025
Adverb
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The name steadily declined over the following decades and fell off the list of top 1,000 entirely after 2019.2 Wieber, who won gold as part of the Fierce Five at the 2012 London Olympics, is now head coach of the University of Arkansas women's gymnastics team.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
13 June 2025
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This is unexpected, even counterintuitive, in a play about an elderly woman with mobility issues and a humanoid machine, yet such physicality is entirely normal in a Rivera play.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
13 June 2025
Adverb
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Sadly, the lifeline of peer-to-peer car sharing is under threat in New York due to outdated, unnecessary, and downright punitive insurance regulations that don’t exist anywhere else in the country.—
Al Sharpton,
New York Daily News,
8 June 2025
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The legal landscape has become downright hostile for transgender communities.—
Aparna Rae,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
Adverb
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The confusion stems from language the White House used in the directive that will totally or partially suspend entry into the United States and the issuance of immigrant and non-immigrant visas to nationals of the 19 countries.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2025
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On the other hand, Indian tech companies should start diversifying their clientele base instead of relying totally on the U.S. market.—
Paresh Sagar,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
Adverb
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He’s read a few books on the subject, but he’s also discovered—as all risk-takers eventually do—that practice and game day are two wholly different animals.—
Levi King,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Narrating what happened with the boy in the autopsy room turned out to be wholly different from experiencing it; the riptide shock of that moment slowed to a largo of painful excavation.—
Danielle Ofri,
New Yorker,
7 June 2025
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“Categorically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/categorically. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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