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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.
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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decisively
Adverb
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These episodes have been triggered by intense heat domes — stubborn areas of high pressure that lock hot air in place — and are clearly supercharged by global warming, experts say.
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Offensive players There are high expectations on junior running back Dylan Riley in 2026, and EA clearly agrees with his talent.
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Staff for Democratic Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs, the president-elect, responded positively March 30.
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In fact, over two-thirds of Democrats view socialism more positively than capitalism.
Adverb
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While a vitamin D deficiency is associated with a higher risk of fibroids, researchers cannot definitively say that the deficiency causes fibroids.
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Although no single observed weather season can be fully attributed to climate change, scientists can definitively say that anthropogenic climate change has made these events more frequent and more extreme.
Adverb
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However, over time astronomers conclusively showed that this event was indeed real and originated in a distant galaxy.
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Last week, The New York Times reported that emails conclusively show that the Department of Homeland Security decided to end TPS for Haitians before DHS heard from the State Department about whether conditions in Haiti had changed sufficiently.
Adverb
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Sometimes, were stymied because the conduct is based, the servers are based, outside of certainly Manhattan, but in many instances outside the United States.
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The fact that my son and his girlfriend live in Kansas City certainly helped spark our newfound fascination.
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Colombia held Ronaldo in check all night Saturday, surely disappointing his legion of fans.
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That amount of splitting will surely present those three host nations with similar situations to the one Canada is facing now.
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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 2 Jul. 2026.
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