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
In the saddle, emancipated from their bodies, Pollard, Woolf, and all other reinsmen sailed eight feet over the world, emphatically free, emphatically alive.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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