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fervently

[fur-vuhnt-lee] / ˈfɜr vənt li /






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Many nervous candidates fervently hope for a midcourse GOP correction that gives the party a boost next year.

From The Wall Street Journal

Recent years remind us of this, especially as politicians fervently attempt to legislate versions of history that don’t suit their agendas out of classrooms.

From Salon

“Welcome to Derry” joins a library of King’s made-for-TV adaptations that were met with a mixture of reactions — some acclaimed, like “Castle Rock,” and others embraced by fervently devoted if small audiences.

From Salon

During the 1990s, Bill and Hillary Clinton fervently mapped out paths for poor women that would ostensibly make private enterprise the central solution to poverty.

From Salon

A moderately liberal Democrat, Updike was in the smallest of literary minorities in not being fervently against the Vietnam War.

From The Wall Street Journal