steadfastly

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Recent Examples of steadfastly Advertisement Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, meanwhile, has steadfastly maintained that Trump could have easily avoided a shutdown. Callum Sutherland, Time, 1 Oct. 2025 No matter how much football is sanitised, or how much is taken away from us, chants remain something that steadfastly belong to us. Nick Miller, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025 But the Pennsylvania senator has steadfastly declined entreaties to leave the Democratic Party. Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 29 Sep. 2025 Everyone had been rooting for me and cheering for me and supporting me so steadfastly. Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025 From the start, Cédric has steadfastly maintained his innocence. Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025 Charlie glanced at Don, who was steadfastly ignoring the situation. Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025 In my interview with, Nancy Levine Stearns, founder of Impactivize, a nonprofit journalism project, finds that the majority of corporations remain steadfastly committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 For a show to steadfastly champion such virtues felt revelatory, as did its ensemble of actors who didn’t fit Hollywood’s usual expectations of age, sexuality, or body type. Paula Mejía, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for steadfastly
Adverb
  • With noise cancellation enabled, the earbuds can play audio continuously for up to eight hours, or up to 32 hours including the capacity of the charging case.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
  • This article is being continuously updated.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Amazon has been steadily boosting partners for its DSP, inking recent pacts with Netflix, Disney and Roku for programmatic ad sales.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Egg prices, initially high in early 2025 due to avian influenza, have steadily declined.
    Olivia Evans, Louisville Courier Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • In Flanders, with nearly seven million residents, only about a thousand actively use Solid; one feature lets graduates send digital diplomas to employers.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The note adds that the vineyard is actively working on a solution with McCordsville officials.
    Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 29 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Testifying for the defense, variety show hosts Ed Sullivan, Garry Moore, and Perry Como vigorously stuck up for the medium that made them.
    Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Other Latin American countries that had suffered under military dictatorships vigorously prosecuted the perpetrators of human rights abuses, but Brazil did not follow suit.
    Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Schiff vehemently denies anything improper.
    Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Trump has vehemently denied writing the message and is now suing the Wall Street Journal for $10 billion over its initial report about the letter.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • This was Sunderland’s big day and, unlike the unremittingly bleak goodbye to this level in 2016-17, there is early cause to believe a very different club can enjoy very different fortunes back in the Premier League.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • This office will zealously pursue justice to the fullest extent of the law to protect our vulnerable adults and their families from such an atrocity.
    Christina Hall, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Al-Sistani’s patience during the early months of the occupation kept Iraqi Shia from zealously fighting the Americans.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Someone who understands their own core beliefs, values and mission—and sticks to them ardently.
    Rob Lancit, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • So my relationship with it had been more verbal and lyrical, and seeing a production that was so ardently about the physical experience of Hamlet… that really left a mark on me.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Steadfastly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steadfastly. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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