STEADILY Synonyms: 126 Similar and Opposite Words

steadily

adverb

Definition of steadily next

as in continuously

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as in surely

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Recent Examples of steadily The aid groups have already seen the need steadily rise over the last year, and the Hunger Coalition estimates that a quarter of San Diego County residents could go hungry without help. —

Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2026 Despite the disruption, traffic moved steadily through much of downtown Sacramento on Saturday as drivers adjusted their routes and relied on navigation apps to reach their destinations. —

Conor McGill, CBS News, 31 May 2026 But the lake has steadily expanded, swallowing homes, grazing lands, schools, roads and the burial grounds where Lenkutuk's ancestors were laid to rest. —

Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 31 May 2026 In the video, Jessie, who is wearing a blue bikini, puts one foot on her husband's thigh and the other on his shoulder, hooking it around his neck, and stands up steadily while flashing her arm muscles at the camera. —

Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026 Democrat Xavier Becerra, the former Health and Human Services secretary, has risen steadily in recent polls, positioning him well to potentially advance to November. —

Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026 Another new statewide poll released May 27 by the Public Policy Institute of California also showed Becerra steadily rising. —

Josh Meyer, USA Today, 31 May 2026 The bar for earning a customer’s confidence has risen steadily, and in most industries, it hasn’t been matched by a corresponding rise in how companies actually behave. —

Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 Ironically, the onslaught of AI sludge reshaping the look and feel of life online today has been steadily compelling some viewers to embrace exploring last century’s cinema in the real world. —

Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 May 2026

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Her model suggests that antecedents, physiological state and consequences continuously influence one another, with behavior emerging as the result of that interaction.

— Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 2 June 2026
The Aerospace Corporation has been advancing a concept for a restartable solid rocket motor (RSRM), a propulsion configuration that has long posed engineering difficulties because conventional solid motors burn continuously once ignited and cannot be throttled or shut down mid-flight.

— Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 1 June 2026