potently

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Recent Examples of potently 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 Were there any lessons learned, or wisdom gleaned, from that experience in terms of how to operate in the aftermath of the release of these films, which speak so directly and potently to our real world? David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for potently
Adverb
  • Milei has repeatedly wielded a chainsaw on stage to promote slashing spending, but his agenda, which also includes deregulation and free-market reform, has led to a volatile peso currency and seen investors aggressively dump Argentine stocks and bonds.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Larger cyber startups are moving aggressively to bolster their product offerings for the evolving threat landscape.
    Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • With the exception of SHoP’s assertively detailed, if financially troubled, extravaganza, the pall of clunkism has enveloped even projects that aspire to high design.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2025
  • His confrontational style inspired a generation of young conservatives to assertively defend their values and to mock liberals, even in sometimes incendiary ways.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • That care meant an eight-month rehabilitation stay at two facilities in Lincoln, Nebraska, and a future that surely would not include broadcasting as Hains fought for his life.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Business, finance, capital, and prosperity will surely follow.
    Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • This week in politics In the hours and days after a Politco exposé revealed the chair and vice chair of the Kansas Young Republicans sent bigoted messages in a group chat with members from three other states, Kansas GOP officials emphatically disavowed the hateful and violent rhetoric.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But the leading opponent of the tax, the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, says emphatically that Elo-Rivera is proposing an annual tax of $5,000 that would be levied per bedroom.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • In nearly any other place, Wiener would be solidly left.
    Anita Chabria, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The three major averages finished solidly in negative territory on Wednesday.
    Sean Conlon,Pia Singh, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Such fallacies are utterly unacceptable anywhere…The Chinese military will continue to take necessary measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security, and firmly uphold regional peace and stability.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The Post has resolutely revealed such entanglements to readers of news coverage or commentary in the past, whether the Graham family's holdings, which included the Stanley Kaplan educational company and Slate magazine, or, since 2013, those of Bezos, who founded Amazon and Blue Origin.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 28 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • And managers are reluctant to crack down too intensively.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Leyla’s was a Frenchman, an art collector twice her age, who picked her up in one of Moscow’s posh night clubs and began to educate her intensively.
    Julia Ioffe, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • In 2001, then-President Bill Clinton brought China into the World Trade Organization to encourage a liberal turn in Beijing, but instead fast-tracked the rise of a rigidly authoritarian economic rival.
    Andy Browne, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The setlist for the reunion tour to date has been rigidly predictable, with the group performing the same 23 songs, in the same order, at all the shows to date.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Potently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/potently. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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