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Recent Examples of resoundingly
It was loved by the students attending — and resoundingly detested by the judges.
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Jim Farmer, AJC.com, 6 Feb. 2026
The Ryan Odom era of Virginia basketball is off to a resoundingly positive start, and even a triple-overtime loss to archrival Virginia Tech has not cooled hopes of competing for a regular-season championship.
—Jim Root, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
Proposition 82 was resoundingly defeated by California voters.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 15 Dec. 2025
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani just won a significant upset victory in the nation's largest city's election, resoundingly defeating former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo first in the Democratic primary and then again in the general election last month.
—Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
And the regular season certainly started that way, when the Packers resoundingly beat the Detroit Lions and the Washington Commanders in back-to-back weeks.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 11 Nov. 2025
The redistricting measure, which passed resoundingly Tuesday, doesn’t break any ground, chart a fresh course or shed any light on a better pathway forward.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
On Tuesday, Austin voters resoundingly rejected a ballot measure – Proposition Q – that would’ve generated $110 million for a variety of expenses by hiking the city property tax rate more than 20%.
—Chaya Tong, Austin American Statesman, 7 Nov. 2025
In November 2024, Arizona voters resoundingly passed Proposition 312.
—Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Jim Farmer, AJC.com, 6 Feb. 2026
The Ryan Odom era of Virginia basketball is off to a resoundingly positive start, and even a triple-overtime loss to archrival Virginia Tech has not cooled hopes of competing for a regular-season championship.
—Jim Root, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
Proposition 82 was resoundingly defeated by California voters.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 15 Dec. 2025
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani just won a significant upset victory in the nation's largest city's election, resoundingly defeating former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo first in the Democratic primary and then again in the general election last month.
—Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
And the regular season certainly started that way, when the Packers resoundingly beat the Detroit Lions and the Washington Commanders in back-to-back weeks.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 11 Nov. 2025
The redistricting measure, which passed resoundingly Tuesday, doesn’t break any ground, chart a fresh course or shed any light on a better pathway forward.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
On Tuesday, Austin voters resoundingly rejected a ballot measure – Proposition Q – that would’ve generated $110 million for a variety of expenses by hiking the city property tax rate more than 20%.
—Chaya Tong, Austin American Statesman, 7 Nov. 2025
In November 2024, Arizona voters resoundingly passed Proposition 312.
—Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for resoundingly
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Other candidates responded to Hicks’ letter more stridently.—
JOSÉ LUIS VILLEGAS,
Sacbee.com,
3 Mar. 2026
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Still, Democrats stridently argued that Congress needs to assert its role in determining when the president can use wartime powers.—
Stephen Groves,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Or would he be seen as too extreme, too inexperienced, too opportunistic, and too blatantly the lover of the limelight?—
Gail Sheehy,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026
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However, a teenager might simply identify sentences and structure, but after several years of living, loving and obsessing over someone with tousled hair, that now-adult might find their experiences affirmed, perhaps even blatantly, through a 178-year-old novel.—
Hannah Benson,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
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Offered new plans with less lucrative terms, cardholders who’d grown used to earning generous points and a sweet deal took to Reddit to complain vociferously about Bilt.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
26 Feb. 2026
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Amber Glenn put together an almost flawless free skate in her return to the ice and received rave reviews from the crowd, who cheered her on vociferously after every jump.—
Sean Nevin,
NBC news,
19 Feb. 2026
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This was the end-credits scene for Elio to tease Hoppers as the next Pixar film, but the brief clip resonated so loudly and turned lil' Tom into, essentially, the mascot for crashing out.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Mar. 2026
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The aggression with which both parties have worked to manipulate district lines—while loudly inveighing against the other party for doing the exact same thing—is cynical and depressing.—
Ian Crouch,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
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In a video captured by a Bee journalist, Sodke was seen boisterously entering the stage at Golden 1 Center to receiver her diploma from Chancellor Gary May while cheering on her fellow undergraduates that day.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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About 150 people attended the meeting, and boisterously applauded when speakers condemned the town’s less stringent rules.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
16 Jan. 2026
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The neighbors say that motorcycle enthusiasts regularly drive recklessly and noisily along RM 2222 west of Loop 360 and that officers have not been able to reign in the behavior under existing city rules.—
Austin Sanders,
Austin American Statesman,
26 Feb. 2026
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Neither is the machine that, partway through the play, noisily turns the stage into a great berg of foam, which slowly subsumes a resigned Kramer.—
Talya Zax,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2026
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And atypical challenges like having her uproariously unfiltered serial criminal of an aunt hiding out in the school library and trying to get Kimberly and her friends involved in her latest fraud scheme.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
25 Feb. 2026
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Everyone in the break room laughs uproariously.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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The Rangers are also clearly in win-now mode, though, and can only afford so much time for development at the big league level.—
Shawn McFarland,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Mar. 2026
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The culling perfectly played into ongoing fears that AI automation is coming for white-collar jobs, a major job market and economic disruption that workers are becoming increasingly worried about — and which clearly has execs salivating.—
Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
5 Mar. 2026
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