violently
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“I wanted the slogan ‘let’s sue it’ — that was violently nixed,” Roy said of her campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 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
The English flee, the French strip the corpses in the lower border, and the ragged-edged Tapestry ends as suddenly and violently as Anglo-Saxon England.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
As the confining pressure falls, dissolved gases separate into distinct components from the melt and expand violently.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
It was clear that she saw Walter as the kind of person who would never kill someone violently, which was consistent with the opinion of everyone who knew him.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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