stalwartly

Definition of stalwartlynext

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Recent Examples of stalwartly Beyond the narrative, the production rests stalwartly on Chidester’s four actors. — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 7 Apr. 2026 He was brutally tortured during his captivity and held in solitary confinement for four of the years he was detained but stalwartly refused to provide the North Vietnamese with information. — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Apr. 2026 Year by year, under the influence of a movement sometimes known as Free Vermont, the stalwartly Republican state, which had voted for Richard Nixon by a wide margin in 1960, tilted further to the left. — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026 For example, the Tunisian Islamist group Ennahda stalwartly defended democracy and helped write a liberal constitution after the country ousted Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011. — Robert Kubinec, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stalwartly
Adverb
  • Roosevelt and Britain’s Winston Churchill shrewdly and courageously led the West in the epic battle against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan through World War II.
    — John T. Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Police say the victim courageously fought for her life and escaped to the breezeway of the apartment, screaming for help as Reyes continued to assault her.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
Adverb
  • The simple fact of the matter is that David Solomon remains firmly in charge of Goldman Sachs and will for the foreseeable future.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
  • For The Times) Greenspan claims somewhat less creative license with more traditional deli staples, though bagels, pastrami and knishes still stand firmly at the nexus of old Jewish traditions and Greenspan’s chef-y tendencies.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Adverb
  • But, over the award show’s 75-plus-year tenure, there have been a handful of celebs who bravely bared all—and delivered unforgettable looks in the process.
    — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Skirting bravely around the edges of space to seek solace, they’re hunted by the Operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a deadly Alliance assassin on a mission who seeks to recapture her.
    — Grace Dean, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Adverb
  • 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.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
Adverb
  • But the schedule doesn’t stint on fiction, which shows up in boldly expectation-defying forms.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Jackson has responded accordingly and spoken boldly about the offense’s potential.
    — Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Adverb
  • The British Jews fighting valiantly for Britain do not regard themselves as homeless.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Unmoored, often ill with tuberculosis, and in and out of hospitals, Leigh valiantly continued to work, seemingly unconcerned about her precarious health.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026
Adverb
  • Related On the 10-track set, Santiler, a former 2025 Billboard On the Radar Latin artist, seamlessly navigates from alternative to jazz to electronic, while fearlessly redefining Latin pop music.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2026
  • That everyone commits so fearlessly — and with such straight faces — to the Zellners’ berserk world-building is a joy to behold, aided by a terrific jukebox soundtrack and a chaotic, entropic plot that builds and builds to insane levels of carnage.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2026

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“Stalwartly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stalwartly. Accessed 3 Oct. 2026.

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