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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.
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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
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
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Philadelphia will likely chase a new deal with Kyle Schwarber, which might keep them from aggressively pursuing Suárez.—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Nov. 2025
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The stock was hit hard over concerns that management is spending too aggressively to expand its AI infrastructure.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
10 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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These early reports highlight how the mode may behave more assertively than before.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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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
Adverb
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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
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Business, finance, capital, and prosperity will surely follow.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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South Carolina nearly did it last week to Alabama, while Texas A&M emphatically ended LSU’s season — and coach Brian Kelly and athletic director Scott Woodward’s tenures in Baton Rouge.—
Matt Hayes,
USA TODAY,
31 Oct. 2025
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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
Adverb
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Democrats wiped his district out completely and drew in Los Angeles County, shifting him from a Republican-leaning seat to a solidly Democratic one.—
Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Nov. 2025
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However, a 14% jump over two trading days put the stock solidly in the green and lifted it to a record close Monday.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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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
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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
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And managers are reluctant to crack down too intensively.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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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 15 Nov. 2025.
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