staunchly
Example Sentences
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During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Spain, then led by conservative prime minister Jose Maria Aznar, staunchly backed the United States by sending troops.
From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026
But he remains a politician staunchly rooted in the mid-aughts, when all 7,000 of his teeth could really clinch an election.
From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026
Ms. Truschke rejects such a “harmful” and inaccurate organization of India’s chronology, pointing, for instance, to the “numerous Maratha, Rajput, and Nayaka lineages”—all staunchly non-Muslim—that ruled during the so-called Muslim period.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Mahmood said: "Individual sentencing decisions will always be the responsibility of the independent judiciary – and this is something I will staunchly defend."
From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025
This of all things her family understood, and afterward they drew together staunchly around her.
From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
