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as in steadfast
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as in unhesitating
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Recent Examples of unfaltering
His flow is fierce and unfaltering, while the choreography is kinetic and intense.
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Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
Even before those darker undertones take relentless hold, there’s an unfaltering, genuine honesty to both the handling of the material and the tender, believable performances of her actors, whose actual ages qualify them as bona fide teens, unlike those often cast in mainstream productions.
—Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
Much of this might have been formulaic in less artful hands, but Kore-eda has an unfaltering lightness of touch, a way of injecting emotional veracity and spontaneity into every moment.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2022
Despite her horror ordeal, spurred on by the unfaltering support from family and friends, brave Dawn is refusing to give up.
—Hayley Richardson and Jane Cohen, Fox News, 9 May 2017
Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
Even before those darker undertones take relentless hold, there’s an unfaltering, genuine honesty to both the handling of the material and the tender, believable performances of her actors, whose actual ages qualify them as bona fide teens, unlike those often cast in mainstream productions.
—Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
Much of this might have been formulaic in less artful hands, but Kore-eda has an unfaltering lightness of touch, a way of injecting emotional veracity and spontaneity into every moment.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2022
Despite her horror ordeal, spurred on by the unfaltering support from family and friends, brave Dawn is refusing to give up.
—Hayley Richardson and Jane Cohen, Fox News, 9 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfaltering
Adjective
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What alerted them to her location wasn’t footprints or a cell phone ping, however, but rather the sounds of her steadfast pup, Cami.—
Outside,
Outside,
6 Jan. 2026
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The year-on-year increases at each major are more modest, usually between 10 and 12 percent, but that percentage of tournament revenue remains steadfast, if not entirely immovable.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The film doesn’t idealize the president as a man of unhesitating certainties.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2025
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But its guiding principle this time is not idealism but realism, with an unhesitating embrace of national interests and increased recourse to power politics.—
Sarang Shidore,
Foreign Affairs,
31 Aug. 2023
Adjective
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Developed at the height of the Cold War, GPS was designed by the Pentagon to give US forces an unfailing sense of position anywhere on Earth.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
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In a world where trust now comes at a premium, trust in your GenAI strategy starts with trusting the data that fuels it, and the most unfailing data in your business lives in your contracts.—
Monish Darda,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The responses in Bug are very vocal and that is a lot of fun.—
Juan A. Ramírez,
Vogue,
9 Jan. 2026
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Hopefuls are judged on musical performance, song choice, vocal abilities, costuming, crowd appeal and authenticity in portraying the real-life Gold Rush character Klondike Kate.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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None has been as unflinching as King of Ashes.—
Emma Alpern,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
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After the two action stars famously feuded while working on the Fast & Furious movies and then apparently squashed their beef, Diesel is praising Johnson and his recent performance in The Smashing Machine, the unflinching biopic about mixed martial artist Mark Kerr.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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For too long immigrants, trans folks, students, and working class people of color have been forced to stand alone, bravely battling these unrelenting attacks, without adequate protection from the city or state.—
Natalia Aristizabal,
New York Daily News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Why, then, the unrelenting economic gloom?—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
6 Jan. 2026
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His platform was clear and attuned to voters’ mood; his social-media operation and field organizing were expert; his charisma was unremitting.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
1 Jan. 2026
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There seemed to be an element of sadomasochistic play in their relationship, of withholding and succumbing, that contravenes the popular sense of an unremitting dominant-submissive dynamic.—
Daphne Merkin,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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The relentless Chacon lurched outside after her just as his car door opened and out popped their 6-year-old son, begging his dad to stop.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Czechia had trouble handling a relentless Sweden forecheck and tight coverage all over.—
Joe Smith,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Unfaltering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfaltering. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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