SOUNDLY Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

soundly

adverb

Definition of soundly next

as in fully

to a full extent or degree we'll keep working at it until you're soundly satisfied with the result

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Recent Examples of soundly The three-way race heated up earlier this year when Kiros soundly defeated DeGette in the Democrats’ Denver County assembly. —

Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 31 May 2026 There was a defeat with Frankfurt in the final of the same competition, against the same opponent in 2023, and they were also soundly beaten by Napoli in the last 16 of the Champions League that season. —

Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 27 May 2026 Last year, Swiss scientists showed that AI models soundly beat humans on emotional intelligence tests. —

Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026 In one of the most expensive congressional primary races ever, Massie was soundly defeated by Ed Gallrein. —

Ted Johnson, Deadline, 20 May 2026 Ed Gallrein, a Navy SEAL backed by the president, soundly defeated the seven-term representative Thomas Massie in Kentucky’s Fourth Congressional District. —

Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026 Light energy harnessed in the real world was now playing through the radio of his car in the dream world in the form of melodious static that lulled him either to sleep soundly or to be sound asleep. —

Weike Wang, New Yorker, 17 May 2026 Voters in 2016 soundly defeated a measure that would have raised council member pay to $45,000 and mayoral pay to $60,000. —

Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 May 2026 One sweet baby could be seen wearing a pink tutu and pink flower hair bows, sleeping soundly in her photo. —

Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026

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The book is a poetry collection structured in three acts with seven players, each assigned a color of the rainbow and an apparition’s name, each of whom needs an audience to fully exist.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 May 2026
But critics questioned if the arrangement fully addressed the core national security concerns that motivated the TikTok ban legislation in the first place because ByteDance was set to retain control of some of the US app’s operations.

— Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 29 May 2026