EMPHATICALLY Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

emphatically

adverb

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Recent Examples of emphatically Last season, Texas Tech filled that void emphatically with a dominant regular-season display. — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 20 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 In the metal, the Emira looks low, dramatic, and emphatically mid-engined. — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 22 July 2026 Outside its niche following, The Human Vapor is emphatically the latter. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026 But Scotland responded emphatically with tries to Gregor Brown and Scott Cummings, both playing their 50th tests. — ABC News, 4 July 2026 During the work-in-progress session Brooke emphatically doubled down. — Kambole Campbell, Variety, 25 June 2026

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At the Ed Sullivan, renovated twice in the past three decades, most of that work has surely been done already.

— Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026
There’s an incantatory quality to their delivery, which is surely intentional.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of surely

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Amid the resurgence of Japanese cinema on the international festival circuit over the past few years, one resolutely indie banner, Bitters End, has been quietly growing its profile across production, distribution and international sales.

— Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026
Kopple’s documentary is a time capsule, offering a concentrated taste of an earlier moment in American culture, now resolutely over.

— Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of resolutely

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Mulligan then upped the goal to $3 million on Friday, the same day the judge declared a mistrial after one juror steadfastly refused to align with the other 11.

— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2026
Jay Baruchel plays Carter, with Laurence Leboeuf as his steadfastly loving wife, Gloria.

— Carole Horst, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of steadfastly

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There have been rotations into the sleepier parts of the market, such as industrials, healthcare, and energy, all solidly in the green.

— Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
The seat is solidly blue and is all but certain to go to Markey in November against Republican John Deaton.

— Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of solidly

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Despite constantly losing and chasing the game, Vancouver was still soundly outshot, out-chanced and exposed at five-on-five.

— Thomas Drance, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
In Connecticut’s 1st Congressional District, Luke Bronin, the former mayor of Hartford, soundly defeated 14-term incumbent John Larson in a race that was defined more by their 30-year age gap than any policy differences.

— Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 12 Aug. 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

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