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Recent Examples of fixedly
Mission is not about staring fixedly at the destination.
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Chris Harris, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Wole faced fixedly forward, both fists clenching the steering wheel.
—David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Chris Harris, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Wole faced fixedly forward, both fists clenching the steering wheel.
—David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fixedly
Adverb
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North Korea remains a close ally, rigidly committed to traditional communist tyranny.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2026
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Rudd’s natural air of genial tension, of neurosis without an edge, plays into his character’s rigidly disciplined but relentlessly upbeat domesticity.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
Adverb
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The peacocks continue to screech in the distance, while Charli leans on the railing and stares out intently at the Los Angeles skyline.—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 2026
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Burke has pleaded not guilty and followed the Wednesday hearing intently, nodding along as the judge spoke.—
Nancy Dillon,
VIBE.com,
17 June 2026
Adverb
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But on a recent Wednesday at Stanford Medicine’s cancer center in Palo Alto, the boy climbed resolutely into the chair of a first-of-its-kind treatment device, focused for the task ahead.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
18 June 2026
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Jessie Mei Li, who plays the American Cola despite being resolutely English, agrees.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 June 2026
Adverb
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In internal messaging to staff, Bunch has steadfastly asserted the Institution’s independence, while not mentioning Trump by name.—
Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
23 June 2026
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But back the duo steadfastly returned to battle.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
Adverb
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The few street names in Happy Haven were determinedly upbeat, with Christian undertones.—
Stephen King,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
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Wall Street has been determinedly upbeat about the war in Iran resolving in a relatively short window.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
25 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Spain remains solidly second on the international rankings.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
12 June 2026
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In the meantime, Gallagher will continue his fight to keep the 1st Congressional District red after Proposition 50 redistricting redrew its boundaries, adding portions of solidly democratic Mendocino and Sonoma counties and removing conservative Shasta and Sutter counties.—
Haley Parsley
June 10,
Sacbee.com,
10 June 2026
Adverb
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One big concern is that screens are intensively stimulating for young people because they are held up close and engage young viewers with things such as fast cuts and colors.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
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By the end of the seventeenth century, sassafras had become one of the primary exports of the early English colony of Jamestown, and the aromatic bark was harvested intensively for shipment to European markets.—
Kari Traylor,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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With the success of Kpop Demon Hunters, Netflix is bringing feature animation squarely under the domain of Hannah Minghella.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
22 June 2026
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In a statement, the university took aim squarely at the issue of the dead fish in the Fenton River in 2005.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
21 June 2026
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“Fixedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fixedly. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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