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Recent Examples of mightily Offensive outage The Canucks managed to score three goals, with two of them coming after the game was in hand, but in truth, this was another night in which the club struggled mightily to generate quality scoring chances at five-on-five. Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 1 Feb. 2025 The 49ers’ special teams committed massive mistakes almost weekly through the first half of the season, then kicker Jake Moody struggled mightily upon returning from a high-ankle sprain. Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025 In an earlier collaboration with Mankiewicz, the novel A Letter to Five Wives, the director and Zanuck struggled mightily to bring down the towering page count and, later unworkable runtime. Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025 That second number is worse than last year’s squad, which struggled mightily to make 3-pointers. Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for mightily 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mightily
Adverb
  • Prions are extremely persistent in the environment.
    Jim Robbin, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • To Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles Security was already going to be extremely tight, especially after a truck attack killed 14 people and injured many others in New Orleans' French Quarter on New Year's Day.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • The strengths of Love, Brooklyn make the weaknesses harder to shake.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Hamilton pressed Baker hard, but without any trace of theatrics or posturing.
    John T. Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
Adverb
  • By strongly favoring Israel during his first term, President Trump deviated dramatically from the standard support for the two-state solution displayed by his predecessors.
    Peter L. Hahn / Made by History, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Russell Martin pushed strongly to bring Aaron Ramsdale to Southampton for this reason.
    Nick Miller, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Cleaning one's own floors seems like a terribly 20th-century way to spend one's time, and the age of the robo-vac has well and truly dawned over the last few years, with nearly 30% of US homes either using or considering a robot vacuum back in 2022, according to Interpret.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Allen gets another chance to finally get his team past Mahomes’ team, one that isn’t all that terribly far from having made it to seven Super Bowls in a row.
    Mike Lupica, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2025
Adverb
  • Kay was a lifelong resident of International Falls, Minn., and served the community passionately and vigorously.
    Tammie Calder, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Group the shaker firmly with two hands and shake vigorously above your shoulder for about ten seconds.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Vroom, vroom, baby: All of Chelsea Handler's friends loved one of her exes in particular, and there's a very oddly specific reason why.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Her story is very similar to what Milla experiences in the show.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Part comedy, part drama, part horror film, this incredibly accomplished debut announces the arrival of a huge star both in front of and behind the camera.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Feb. 2025
  • What’s incredibly surprising is that some of the most outrageously hard-to-believe tall tales included are the ones backed with photographic evidence.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 1 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Yet this controversy so powerfully stoked by Huxley, which has sometimes caused scholars to see the time as one of outright warfare between irreconcilable groups, belied a complexity of thought that spanned a wide spectrum.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Josh O’Connor: As Max articulates powerfully, these disasters are becoming more frequent and affect everyone, directly or indirectly, more frequently now.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025

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“Mightily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mightily. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.

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