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Recent Examples of decisively
Germany's Manuel Neuer decisively punched the ball away after a strong shot from Ecuador's striker Enner Valencia.
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Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
26 June 2026
Early recognition allows leaders to preserve value, pivot decisively or align with investors before decline accelerates.
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Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
But that appeared to change over the weekend as a slew of his cabinet ministers urged him to step aside after Burnham decisively won a parliamentary election to return to Westminster.
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Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
Burnham, until this week the popular mayor of Greater Manchester, decisively won the seat of Makerfield in northwestern England in a special election held Thursday.
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ABC News,
21 June 2026
Burnham, until last week the popular mayor of Greater Manchester, decisively won the seat of Makerfield in northwestern England in a special election Thursday.
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Jill Lawless,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2026
Deschamps, who was bidding to become the second manager to win the World Cup twice — after Italian Vittorio Pozzo in 1934 and 1938 — acted decisively by making a first-half double substitution in which Randal Kolo Muani and Marcus Thuram replaced Ousmane Dembele and Olivier Giroud.
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Will Jeanes,
New York Times,
20 June 2026
When Republican opponent Jack Ryan exited the race, Obama faced non-Illinoisan Alan Keyes in the general election and won decisively.
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Chris Tye,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
26 June 2026
Early recognition allows leaders to preserve value, pivot decisively or align with investors before decline accelerates.
—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
But that appeared to change over the weekend as a slew of his cabinet ministers urged him to step aside after Burnham decisively won a parliamentary election to return to Westminster.
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Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
Burnham, until this week the popular mayor of Greater Manchester, decisively won the seat of Makerfield in northwestern England in a special election held Thursday.
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ABC News,
21 June 2026
Burnham, until last week the popular mayor of Greater Manchester, decisively won the seat of Makerfield in northwestern England in a special election Thursday.
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Jill Lawless,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2026
Deschamps, who was bidding to become the second manager to win the World Cup twice — after Italian Vittorio Pozzo in 1934 and 1938 — acted decisively by making a first-half double substitution in which Randal Kolo Muani and Marcus Thuram replaced Ousmane Dembele and Olivier Giroud.
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Will Jeanes,
New York Times,
20 June 2026
When Republican opponent Jack Ryan exited the race, Obama faced non-Illinoisan Alan Keyes in the general election and won decisively.
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Chris Tye,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decisively
Adverb
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Set terms clearly, and honor your pace.
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The goalless half, though, hasn't been the result of two teams' playing out the string, as Australia has clearly had the better of it.
Adverb
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Haiti already faced an uphill climb to get back into this game trailing 2-0, but now their opportunity to draw a point looks positively grim.
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The body discovered earlier this week in Lexington County, South Carolina, has been positively identified as missing fitness trainer Elena Katherine Moore, authorities announced Friday.
Adverb
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Although the car was found abandoned the following January in Memphis, Tennessee, there wasn't enough evidence to point definitively to a potential suspect.
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Bergdoll recognizes that people get excited over the prospect of this wealth moving to charities but says more data is needed to definitively declare that the transfer has started.
Adverb
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Consciousness is uniquely and notoriously challenging to define, much less to conclusively affirm or disprove the presence of.
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Showing conclusively that any given meteoroid comes from interstellar space is a notoriously difficult task, but having more cameras on the sky to boost the odds for good trajectory and velocity measurements would be extremely helpful.
Adverb
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That’s certainly fascinating to watch in the world today.
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However, the familial drives of men are something seldom acknowledged by society more broadly, Lewis says, and certainly not to the same degree that women's are.
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And yet, the most gruesome naval battle in Westerosi history surely would have thrilled as a season finale.
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Some of these Bay Area Shakira supporters had surely seen this show before, back when the Colombian pop star entertained some 33,000 music lovers on a chilly June night at Oracle Park in San Francisco in 2025.
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The national team has undoubtedly become Messi's priority in more recent years, although building a team around that could have backfired on Scaloni if his playmaker could not reach the heights expected of him.
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The Three-Fifths Compromise undoubtedly increased the political power of slave states and affected how electoral votes were allocated.
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Their agents also knew this and assuredly would have shared that risk assessment with their clients (especially for Veesaar and Evans, both of whom are repped by The Team — formerly Wasserman — an agency that sent multiple potential first-round picks back to school this draft cycle).
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That said, the Heat assuredly will consider all such options in free agency, to see if there might be an upgrade at similar cost.
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“Decisively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decisively. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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