violently
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The King has made a poignant visit to the site where a Guyanese slave rebellion was violently resisted by British authorities, making the stop during his tour of the Caribbean.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
“I wanted the slogan ‘let’s sue it’ — that was violently nixed,” Roy said of her campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
According to the simulations, the impact violently displaced vast quantities of rock and seawater, producing a towering curtain of debris before the material collapsed back into the ocean.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
Another showed a bridge over the Panama Canal shaking violently but remaining upright as vehicles travelled across it.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
At the foot of the cliff, the boat juddered violently as the wind battered it.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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