emphatic
Example Sentences
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The U.S. and Mexico both won their opening matches in emphatic fashion, while Canada avoided defeat with a tie against Bosnia and Herzegovina.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026
He liked to play loudly, for many hours at a time, improvising ceaseless and whipsawing sagas of frenetic melodies and emphatic blaring and screeching—it was a whole lot of sound.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
Bordeaux-Begles scored five first-half tries as they retained the Champions Cup with an emphatic victory over Leinster in the final in Bilbao and prolonged the Irish team's agony in European rugby's showpiece game.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
UCLA-bound Mateo Fuerbringer was ready from the start, ending Loyola’s first three rallies with thunderous kills and the fourth with an emphatic stuff block.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026
My instinct was to blurt out an emphatic NO, but the bike-a-thon had proved that there was more to my rival than meets the eye without a microscope.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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