violently

adverb

as in sharply

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Recent Examples of violently But Delapierre was flung forwards violently by the rapid deceleration and suffered a nasty face-plant into the cockpit. — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026 The deal goes bad, violently so, and Vince hightails it back to New York, looking for a bailout from brother Jake (played by Jude Law), owner of Manhattan’s hippest restaurant. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026 The victim, a 15-year-old female, was home with her 5-year-old and 7-year-old family members when Reyes violently made entry into the residence after breaking a hole in the wall between the apartments. — CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026 The device is already used by some police and prison agencies to restrain suspects who violently resist arrest or being moved by law enforcement. — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026 Republican members of the House wrote a letter to the WNBA demanding protection for Clark, implying that she was being violently targeted on the court for her race, and Thomas received death threats online. — Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 12 Aug. 2026 The grainy surveillance footage, dated June 29, 2024, showed a teenager in an anti-suicide smock being dragged violently by other teens across the floor at Middle Tennessee Juvenile Detention Center. — Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2026 Two people were killed Wednesday when a Fort Hood AH-64 Apache attack helicopter violently crashed into a field in Central Texas, sparking a wildfire that forced evacuations and sent emergency crews racing to the scene, authorities said. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026 In the epic fantasy world of Orïsha, a young woman goes on a quest to reclaim the magic that was violently stolen from her people. — Dominique Fluker, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for violently
  1. sharply
  2. fiercely
  3. vehemently
  4. forcefully
  5. forcibly
  6. vigorously
  7. strongly
  8. energetically
Adverb
  • Heavy rain can sharply reduce visibility and create dangerous road conditions even before flooding begins.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Israel sharply criticized the UK after London voiced opposition to the Jewish state’s support for settlements in the occupied West Bank, the latest in a series of rows with once strong Western allies.
    — Tasneem Nashrulla, semafor.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of sharply
Adverb
  • Reductions Many of the valuation cuts were fiercely opposed by Fritz Kaegi, the outgoing Cook County assessor.
    — Alex Nitkin, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Emmy voters are not a sentimental bunch, and the categories are stacked and fiercely competitive.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of fiercely
Adverb
  • Baku vehemently denied the report at the time, and stepped up its denials this week, filing a defamation lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Delaware.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Becerra vehemently pledges to do that and points to his successful record as attorney general blocking the president’s policies in court.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of vehemently
Adverb
  • New York Lawyers for the Public Interest has made this case for more than 20 years, and the state’s evaluation underscores it more forcefully than ever.
    — Sakeena Trice, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • But Juan Gonzalez, a former National Security Council senior director for the Western Hemisphere and a key architect of President Biden’s Latin America policy, told me that speaking more forcefully and having more influence are two different things.
    — Daniel Castro, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of forcefully
Adverb
  • Only when war between the United States and Japan broke out the next year were Japanese schools in Hawaii forcibly closed.
    — H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The orders have been a recurring flashpoint in these deals, with legal complaints alleging officials in Equatorial Guinea and Ghana forcibly sent third-country deportees to their home nations in violation of the orders.
    — Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of forcibly
Adverb
  • Why aren’t cabinet officials or high-ranking military officers vigorously and publicly opposing them?
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • But the legality of their use has been vigorously debated as a possible violation of the laws of war, and they have never been deployed at scale.
    — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of vigorously
Adverb
  • For the record, Duffy has strongly disclaimed any interest in the White House, which is, after all, just a bunch of boring grownups talking.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2026
  • While Mundo Deportivo later reported Balde was motivated to fight for his place, his omission from the squad now strongly indicates an exit.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of strongly
Adverb
  • In what is often considered Pelechian’s magnum opus, the ancient antagonism of nature and humanity plays out in a depiction of a remote farming community, energetically scored with Armenian folk music and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Plenty of his peers filled the void, none more energetically than Chesney, who has by now built a beachy brand that almost rivals Buffett’s.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
Definition of energetically

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