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Recent Examples of violently
Attempts to organize farmworkers were often crushed violently.
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Steve Appleford,
Rolling Stone,
4 July 2026
Taylor and Mortensen have been engaged in a contentious, high-profile legal battle after a pair of investigations were launched by Utah police departments in February into allegations that each acted violently during altercations that month.
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Luke Chinman,
PEOPLE,
1 July 2026
King was photographed wearing lei about two weeks after the event known as Bloody Sunday when state troopers violently attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on March 7, 1965.
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ABC News,
30 June 2026
Hours later, when twin earthquakes struck Venezuela 39 seconds apart, the hotel shook violently, then buckled.
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Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
Previously, when an FBI agent used falsified evidence to arrest an anti-ICE protester in New York, threw her violently to the ground, detained her, and initiated her criminal prosecution, no federal law permitted the victim to sue the agent.
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Joel B. Rudin,
New York Daily News,
28 June 2026
The video showed that during the second time, the dog latched onto Evans’ left forearm and violently thrashed as Evans cried out in pain.
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Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 June 2026
In her two-story home, lamps and other objects began swaying violently.
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Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
25 June 2026
The waters of a continent – west from the Rockies and east from the Appalachians – pour into it, sometimes violently, sometimes placidly.
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Alfredo Sosa,
Christian Science Monitor,
24 June 2026
Steve Appleford,
Rolling Stone,
4 July 2026
Taylor and Mortensen have been engaged in a contentious, high-profile legal battle after a pair of investigations were launched by Utah police departments in February into allegations that each acted violently during altercations that month.
—
Luke Chinman,
PEOPLE,
1 July 2026
King was photographed wearing lei about two weeks after the event known as Bloody Sunday when state troopers violently attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on March 7, 1965.
—
ABC News,
30 June 2026
Hours later, when twin earthquakes struck Venezuela 39 seconds apart, the hotel shook violently, then buckled.
—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
Previously, when an FBI agent used falsified evidence to arrest an anti-ICE protester in New York, threw her violently to the ground, detained her, and initiated her criminal prosecution, no federal law permitted the victim to sue the agent.
—
Joel B. Rudin,
New York Daily News,
28 June 2026
The video showed that during the second time, the dog latched onto Evans’ left forearm and violently thrashed as Evans cried out in pain.
—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 June 2026
In her two-story home, lamps and other objects began swaying violently.
—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
25 June 2026
The waters of a continent – west from the Rockies and east from the Appalachians – pour into it, sometimes violently, sometimes placidly.
—
Alfredo Sosa,
Christian Science Monitor,
24 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for violently
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Duenas expected sales to climb sharply in the weeks leading up to the tournament and said his customers are coming from all walks of life, including fans from foreign countries.
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Today, visitors can spot wildlife like bison, bighorn sheep, prairie dogs, and black-footed ferrets among the sharply eroded buttes.
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Trust is constructed slowly, personally, and protected fiercely.
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Yet the illusion has quickly faded, revealing an appetite for the biggest stage that remains fiercely insatiable.
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Trump has vehemently denied her claims and disputed the Manhattan civil jury's 2023 unanimous verdict.
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In addition to the draft changes, owners have already proposed a big-league salary cap and floor, both of which the MLB players’ union vehemently opposes.
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As police tried to handcuff Sever, the Westmoreland County District Attorney's Office said Sever swung at troopers and forcefully grabbed at a trooper's duty weapon, which was secured in a holster.
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Both Rama and Berisha forcefully condemned the act, as did five of the protest’s key leaders and Galit Peleg, Israel’s top diplomat in Tirana.
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Officers determined a female was walking north on Soto Road when an unknown male walking south grabbed the victim and forcibly moved her against her will about 20 feet, police said.
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The woman who survived the rape described in a jury trial how Mystikal, whose real name is Michael Lawrence Tyler, had punched, choked, and forcibly raped her at his home near Baton Rouge, according to local TV station WBRZ.
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Georgia’s most influential dishes could be debated vigorously, but there’s no question that food has been an integral part of the South’s culture.
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Other studio heads, such as Marvel’s Kevin Feige or Warners’ Pam Abdy, are known to get vigorously involved in the post-production process.
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While the city writ large is divided on Mamdani, Democratic primary voters strongly favor the 34-year-old democratic socialist who won in an upset a year earlier, according to Bradley Honan, a Democratic pollster.
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Where assortments were once strongly driven by trends, today the starting point is the customer.
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There was also a large contingent of Iranian fans who energetically waved the nation’s current flag.
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When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects.
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“Violently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/violently. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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