emphatic
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Mozeliak didn’t rule himself out as the long-term answer at general manager and was emphatic about not speaking in absolutes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2026
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
Back-to-back promotions from the National League to League One made Andy Woodman the emphatic winner here, five years into a highly-successful stint in charge of Bromley.
From BBC • May 28, 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
These are more precise versions of the Strunkian advice to “put the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing emphatic
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