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Recent Examples of potently
Hong conjures potently dramatic situations, complex characters, a sense of history and societal tensions.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
12 June 2026
Which is a noble aim, though the parable might register more potently if Athane and Nguyen looked beyond the most obvious of clichés.
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Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
The possibility of a historic crash-out was patently, potently real.
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Brendan Marks,
New York Times,
20 Mar. 2026
Though the conversation didn't quite reach any actionable solutions beyond what has been discussed as already in progress, like Rawls' work, there was one clear message potently felt across the room — one of urgency.
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Monisha Ravisetti,
Space.com,
5 Mar. 2026
Over the course of its five-season run, Stranger Things repeatedly found ways to resurrect Eighties culture, perhaps no more potently than through its many memorable needle drops.
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Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
2 Jan. 2026
His commentary across the film, which potently mixes 16mm film and contemporary digital imagery that encompass the multiple eras of Adrian’s life, switches between adoration and regret befitting a father still contending with such a devastating loss.
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Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
12 June 2026
Which is a noble aim, though the parable might register more potently if Athane and Nguyen looked beyond the most obvious of clichés.
—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
The possibility of a historic crash-out was patently, potently real.
—
Brendan Marks,
New York Times,
20 Mar. 2026
Though the conversation didn't quite reach any actionable solutions beyond what has been discussed as already in progress, like Rawls' work, there was one clear message potently felt across the room — one of urgency.
—
Monisha Ravisetti,
Space.com,
5 Mar. 2026
Over the course of its five-season run, Stranger Things repeatedly found ways to resurrect Eighties culture, perhaps no more potently than through its many memorable needle drops.
—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
2 Jan. 2026
His commentary across the film, which potently mixes 16mm film and contemporary digital imagery that encompass the multiple eras of Adrian’s life, switches between adoration and regret befitting a father still contending with such a devastating loss.
—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for potently
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The Heat was also among the teams that aggressively pursued Antetokounmpo in February ahead of the NBA’s trade deadline before the Bucks ultimately opted to hold on to him for the remainder of the season.
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Wine mogul David Trone is spending big in a comeback bid as wealthy incumbent April McClain Delaney aggressively defends her seat.
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After sitting a bit on the sidelines in the early days of the generative AI boom, risk-adverse finance departments are more assertively using these tools, with 75% reporting using AI compared to just 30% two years ago.
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So, they’ve been encouraged to negotiate more assertively and ask for more money.
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And yet, the most gruesome naval battle in Westerosi history surely would have thrilled as a season finale.
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Some of these Bay Area Shakira supporters had surely seen this show before, back when the Colombian pop star entertained some 33,000 music lovers on a chilly June night at Oracle Park in San Francisco in 2025.
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There are so many of those reminders throughout this tournament, but rarely will the contrast so emphatically slap you across the face.
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The Fourth of July now, as in the past, should be observed, wherever it is celebrated, truly and emphatically, as a national holiday, and in no other spirit.
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Moore is now running for reelection in Utah's solidly red 2nd District.
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The seat is rated as solidly Democratic by forecasters and McAdams will face Republican Riley Owen, who ran unopposed, this November.
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Benji’s father is a volatile patriarch who grills during blizzards and hits him for failing to manfully respond to a classmate’s racist slight.
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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.
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Jessie Mei Li, who plays the American Cola despite being resolutely English, agrees.
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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.
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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.
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“Potently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/potently. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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