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forcefully

adverb as in forcibly

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Every other police department facing an angry crowd will be concerned about being overrun, and overcorrecting in response to that concern may lead to overly forceful, unconstitutional responses.

If there’s one surprising thing, it was in how forceful the likes of Cotton and other GOP Senate colleagues were in taking the other side — in denouncing the effort and tying it to the violent scenes that we saw Wednesday.

The country’s approach to the pandemic has been forceful in many ways, not just when it comes to contact tracing technology.

Sanders and Hawley, the surprising bipartisan duo, has made a forceful push for stimulus checks to be included in the next round of economic relief.

A creative and forceful scorer off the dribble, Mitchell’s new contract will theoretically keep him in Utah through at least his age-28 season.

Christians should have addressed that conflict more forcefully over the holidays.

He should be speaking out forcefully and frequently about the need for calm as the jurors conclude their work.

A former great urging another man to forcefully keep an up-and-coming female rapper in line?

You also argue forcefully against the Hitler-as-Machiavelli argument—that he killed Jews for political reasons.

They refused to pay the Romanian woman, who is six months pregnant, and instead took turns forcefully raping and beating her.

After frowning over the communication, Colonel Lewis read it aloud to some of his officers and expressed himself very forcefully.

Disarmed by it, I can not right the wrongBy scolding him, however forcefully.

The curtain bellies out, and at the same moment M. Brisson is touched; then the curtain is flung forcefully over the table.

The desirability of retreat had presented itself forcefully to the others.

Down the dusty road over West Hill went the twins, Wilbur still forcefully leading.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to forcefully, such as: emphatically, energetically, strenuously, and vigorously.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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