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Recent Examples of vitally
Other vitally important officials have resigned in protest.
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Patti Newton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
Ways to Connect With Your Child Staying connected with your child during the coming out process and afterwards is vitally important.
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 19 Sep. 2025
The process of sitting became vitally important to Bella, as did proving herself an engaging enough companion.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Musk has made clear control of Tesla is vitally important to him.
—Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
Working Within The Trade And With Private Clients Enhancing and relating the company legacy is vitally important to Amenc, who started working for Golay Fils & Stahl in 2001.
—Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
This endangers various marine species, and monitoring those changes is vitally important.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2025
Patti Newton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
Ways to Connect With Your Child Staying connected with your child during the coming out process and afterwards is vitally important.
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 19 Sep. 2025
The process of sitting became vitally important to Bella, as did proving herself an engaging enough companion.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Musk has made clear control of Tesla is vitally important to him.
—Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
Working Within The Trade And With Private Clients Enhancing and relating the company legacy is vitally important to Amenc, who started working for Golay Fils & Stahl in 2001.
—Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
This endangers various marine species, and monitoring those changes is vitally important.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vitally
Adverb
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Evan Adlman, executive vice president of commercial sales and revenue operations at AMC Networks, talked about the current challenge of the TV landscape is figuring out how to get their content in front of as many viewers as possible due to the current model being extremely fragmented.—
Giana Levy,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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Consider either skipping exfoliation or choosing an extremely gentle exfoliant specifically made for sensitive skin.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
26 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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If the oil price comes down, very simply, Russia will settle, and the oil price is way down.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
23 Sep. 2025
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From September to November, the colors of the leaves make a very pretty contrast to the high red rock canyon walls.—
Dave Parfitt,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Her final five looks referenced the Terminator franchise and were incredibly beautiful, a mixture of flashy metallic leather and luxurious-looking knits that the judges deemed more worthy of the win than Ethan’s fantastical Gothic collection and Jesus’s maximalist Barbie-pink outfits.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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Your YouTube channel, Cool Worlds, is incredibly impressive.—
Adam Frank,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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That it’s bound to failure is what makes Don Quixote so terribly sad.—
Ed Simon
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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As winning goes, Ralphie VII doesn’t have a terribly high bar to clear.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
21 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Major tech firms, for example, famously rely on H-1B visas to fill highly skilled roles with personnel recruited from India and China, among other countries.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
22 Sep. 2025
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The assignments are highly detailed and the company is very transparent about the pay.—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The Rakhimovs joined this story, too.—
Dada Jovanovic,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2025
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Oakland County now has the highest concentration of roundabouts in the state, with 44, although other counties continue to add them, too.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Russian President Vladmir Putin has so far refused to engage in a good faith effort to end the war after almost four years of fighting.—
Mariam Khan,
ABC News,
22 Sep. 2025
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The inspector general declined to comment on why so few enforcement actions have been taken since the clarification, even though CMS has cited 37 psychiatric hospitals for EMTALA violations since then.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
22 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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There’s much less incentive to sell an academy player, or anyone really, if profitability matters less.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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But yeah, mail can get lost for a really long time!—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Vitally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vitally. Accessed 28 Sep. 2025.
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