stoutly
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Standing stoutly on a granite rock just off Wilshire Boulevard in MacArthur Park, Harrison Gray Otis has lost his retinue.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024
General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, head of Ukraine's southern group of forces, said troops around Avdiivka were "stoutly holding their defences".
From Reuters • Nov. 9, 2023
Roy Hodgson's Palace defended stoutly for 99% of the game but their one blip effectively cost them the game.
From BBC • Aug. 21, 2023
After the armed suppression of protests in 1989, he stoutly defended people accused of fomenting “counterrevolutionary turmoil.”
From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2022
“I’m not going to let anybody beat me,” I said stoutly.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing stoutly
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