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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.
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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
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
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Flock Safety also supplies the most surveillance cameras to continuously record details about vehicles driven across North Carolina, The News & Observer reported last year.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Oct. 2025
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As the mechanism is based on a circular redox system, AGXX technology is not consumed but continuously regenerated.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
13 Oct. 2025
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At a time when many politicians and most experts were talking about what seemed like an unstoppable fentanyl crisis, Dasgupta showed deaths had actually been declining steadily in many states since 2021.—
Brian Mann,
NPR,
8 Oct. 2025
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During that time, the duo steadily cultivated their fanbase with projects like The Two Of Us (2017), The Kids Are Alright (2018), and Ungodly Hour (2020), and garnered five Grammy nominations together.—
Regina Cho,
VIBE.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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The company’s recognition at the Humanoid Robotics Industry Awards signals growing acknowledgment of software infrastructure as the backbone of the next industrial era, where humanoid robots actively learn, adapt, and collaborate.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Oct. 2025
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So model taking the time to pause, reflect and actively celebrate each incremental success.—
Rolling Stone Culture Council,
Rolling Stone,
13 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Cornerback Darnay Holmes, suffering from a thigh cramp and desperate to return to the game in the final minutes, pulled down his uniform pants — exposing his backside — while a trainer vigorously massaged the area.—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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Scientists have found that herbicides are most effective on weeds that are growing vigorously.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Oct. 2025
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Israel vehemently denies the claims.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 2025
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Johnson has vehemently denied that the Epstein files are influencing his scheduling decisions.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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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
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But the unrelentingly positive energy, like the inflated compliment culture of Hollywood as a whole, begins to grate.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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“Steadfastly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steadfastly. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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