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emphatically

adverb

as in surely

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Recent Examples of emphatically Theroux emphatically does not write travel guides touting luxury experiences. — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2026 Jorrel Hato misjudged the flight of the delivery, allowing Belloumi to emphatically half-volley a shot into the bottom corner. — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 Bubeck emphatically denied that the two mathematicians’ work had influenced OpenAI. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026 The one dissenter this round is Vic, who emphatically votes for the visible boom mic. — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026 The music icon reacted with pure delight, cheering emphatically with a huge smile on her face. — Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Aug. 2026 Another menu favorite, which de la Torre emphatically recommended, is the build-your-own guacamole. — Kansas City Star, 20 Aug. 2026 And this was the exact type of situation that I had been emphatically implored to avoid by the Polish detective who told us to head for the Georgian-Turkish border. — Literary Hub, 31 July 2026 Few would make that argument more emphatically than Glenn Perry, an All-American swimmer at Cal Poly from 1979 to 1981. — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 23 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emphatically
  1. surely
  2. resolutely
  3. determinedly
  4. steadfastly
  5. solidly
  6. decidedly
  7. soundly
  8. rigidly
Adverb
  • More is surely going on, undetected or unreported, even as there has been a minor online symphony of whistle-blowing, alarm-bell tolling, and pleas for legislative action.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The clothes, which always carried an element of tongue-in-cheek, paraded this sense of an triumphal ascent as surely as the Europeans had done with their get-ups in the late seventeenth century.
    — Lucy Sante, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of surely
Adverb
  • By the end of the meeting, even with their reservations, the aldermen present at City Hall stood resolutely behind the deal.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Though unanimously respected and resolutely opposed to Zionism, Barnston was aging.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of resolutely
Adverb
  • Though based on the visuals of the past, his output is determinedly contemporary.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Blue-collar Ho-seok (Sul), a man traumatized by losing his factory job after a workers’ strike, lives a quiet life with his determinedly optimistic wife, Mi-ok (Jeon).
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of determinedly
Adverb
  • The challenge itself is the one place that Survivor steadfastly refuses to innovate.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
  • So are his bandmates, who have steadfastly supported his solo work even when their own label was lukewarm on it.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of steadfastly
Adverb
  • She’s shown to be relatively smart and a nice person, but she gets solidly outplayed by Jenna.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Even in this solidly red state, Kentucky Democrats are fielding competitive candidates for the 2027 governor’s race.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of solidly
Adverb
  • Mamdani is part of a decidedly anti-Trump guest list joining Kimmel this week.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • More than 40 years later, Madonna accepted Artist of the Year wearing decidedly more secure-looking pair of glossy black pumps.
    — Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of decidedly
Adverb
  • Darren Bailey this spring declined to debate his primary opponents Ted Dabrowski, Rick Heinder and James Mendrick, winning the primary election soundly anyway.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The grand jury soundly rejected that legal theory, nor did the state abide by it when calculating how much was owed to the federal government.
    — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of soundly
Adverb
  • Security decisions made too rigidly can become difficult to accommodate when engineers modify systems later.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Starting in the nineteen-eighties, forms of identification as proof of citizenship became more rigidly required.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of rigidly

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“Emphatically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emphatically. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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