emphatically
Example Sentences
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County elections officials have emphatically rejected those claims.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
“I’ve been making that case for a long time,” Thune told reporters Wednesday, “and we’ll make it again, and today, I think, even more emphatically given the outcome last night.”
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026
This is emphatically consistent with the results in other elections in the last year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
The Canberra-based side emphatically crushed the defending champions Canterbury Crusaders 50–24 last week to end a losing streak in the New Zealand city that stretched 12 games.
From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026
But Leper stands out for me as the person who was most often and most emphatically taken by surprise, by this and every other shift in our life at Devon.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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