fixedly

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Adverb
  • The Personalization System – Continuously adapting your approach based on what's working and what isn't, rather than rigidly following someone else's blueprint.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • One of de l’Horizon’s core motivations in writing this book was to find a form of genuine self-expression in a language that is rigidly gendered.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Cohn listens intently, chiming in every so often to throw softball questions that set his team up to shine.
    Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The Catalan giants were keen and, in Zwolle, Reijnders’ old team-mates followed the story intently.
    Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Star Trek is different; the resolutely sci-fi voyages of James T Kirk, Jean-Luc Picard, and their successors on the final frontier are much more likely to be underpinned by science or, at least, the franchise's version of it.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • At the center stands a bronze Caryatid by Louis Félix Chabaud, a classical guardian presiding over a resolutely modern space and anchoring the atrium from below.
    Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • For instance, Schultz has steadfastly fought against performing blood transfusions in the field, despite the federal government offering billions of dollars in grants to pay for them.
    Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But safety and beauty, like dignity and love, are values DeSantis steadfastly refuses to acknowledge.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Buffalo remains solidly on the outside of the playoff picture, and Eichel was a key factor in the Golden Knights’ winning their first Stanley Cup in 2023.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025
  • While Miami could solidly be considered a buyer's market, the situation on the ground is complex, Realtors said.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Hydrolyzed proteins replenish lost amino acids that intensively nourish and maintain hair in a healthy, balanced state.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Often, the soil was intensively and industrially farmed only a few years ago.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • That responsibility now falls squarely on Johnson as both the House’s institutional leader and the person charged with overseeing the security of its 435 members.
    Nik Popli, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • No, this falls squarely on the shoulders of countries like France, Spain and Netherlands.
    Steve Sedgwick, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • But Karl Maybach’s greatest contribution to the wonders of European civilization were his enormously powerful diesel engines that gave birth to the very first high-speed trains of Europe, emphatically putting steam trains out of business.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Willy Adames, as is his wont, ripped off Bailey’s jersey, the two emphatically dapping hands and bumping chests.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
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“Fixedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fixedly. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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