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forcibly

adverb

as in strongly

in a vigorous and forceful manner the disruptive passenger was forcibly removed from the plane

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Recent Examples of forcibly The International Rescue Committee estimates that there are 118 million people worldwide who have been forcibly displaced this year alone. — ABC News, 4 July 2026 Meanwhile, videos also circulate of men on Russian streets being forcibly press-ganged into the army. — Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026 How they were forcibly marched 400 miles south. — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 June 2026 In late 2022, the Kremlin declared martial law in several areas along the border of Ukraine, which allows the government to seize property, restrict movement, limit public gatherings, detain foreigners and forcibly relocate residents, according to the State Department. — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026 There – with three weeks left for Landor to serve – the warden ignored the judicial order, directing guards to shackle Landor and forcibly shave his head. — Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 26 June 2026 On paper, such arrangements may appear favorable to judges, who often weigh alternatives to forcibly shuttering a hotel over concerns that suddenly vacating a property could worsen blight and invite more crime. — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 25 June 2026 The Supreme Court ruled that a Louisiana prisoner whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved off by prison guards cannot sue them under a federal law designed to protect the religious rights of prisoners. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 24 June 2026 Minnesota is among the states with a history of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families and subjecting them to years in boarding schools that aimed to erase Native cultures, inflicting centuries of intergenerational trauma. — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 23 June 2026

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Adverb

Even with global unemployment at historically low levels, fewer than one in four workers strongly believe their job is safe from being eliminated, according to ADP Research.

— Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
The difference between these two measurements gives the exciton binding energy, a key quantity that determines how strongly the electron and hole remain bound together.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 5 July 2026

Definition of strongly

Adverb

Even 6 inches of swiftly moving water can forcefully knock you off your feet.

— CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
Meeting with Gulf leaders late last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had spoken forcefully against Iran charging fees for transit through the strait.

— Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 13 July 2026

Definition of forcefully

Adverb

His Hammness does show up, tongue planted firmly in his photogenic cheek, and reminds you that nobody does handsome-guy self-mockery better than Jon Hamm.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2026
Working with sections about 2 inches wide, wrap the hair firmly around a silk heatless curling ribbon, directing the hair away from the face.

— Odeya Pinkus, InStyle, 8 July 2026

Definition of firmly

Adverb

Pushing too hard is a fast route to overuse injuries and trail burnout, and neither one gets you to the terminus.

— Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026
Others will argue, reasonably, that no other commercial industry staffs onboard physicians on most routes, and that the infrequency of serious events makes dedicated medical staffing hard to justify economically.

— Sriman Swarup, STAT, 13 July 2026

Definition of hard

Adverb

Bernstein plays with that distance like a telephone cord wrapped around her fingers, and Eleni — played by the excellent newcomer Cemre Paksoy, powerfully helpless — only frays even more as the receiver is brought near the hook.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 July 2026
Their achievements powerfully demonstrate women's capacity for ambitious, high-stakes challenges.

— Kim Elsesser, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of powerfully

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Roughly half of Democrats believe Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians during the war in Gaza, a charge Israel vehemently denies.

— Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Swift’s attorneys vehemently denied the allegations, and in September 2025, the first case was dismissed, according to Billboard.

— Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026

Definition of vehemently

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