resounding
adjective
re·sound·ing
ri-ˈzau̇n-diŋ 
also -ˈsau̇n-
1
: producing or characterized by resonant sound : resonating
2
a
: impressively sonorous
b
: emphatic, unequivocal
a resounding success
resoundingly
adverb
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Examples of resounding in a Sentence
The class answered with a resounding no.
the resounding hubbub of the streets of New York City
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Simon Head, Newsweek, 9 Feb. 2025
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—Beren Cross, The Athletic, 3 Feb. 2025
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—NBC News, 27 Jan. 2025
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Simon Head, Newsweek, 9 Feb. 2025
But the impact from the lives and innocence lost had resounding repercussions.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2025
As responses go, this was as resounding as Muhammad Ali’s rope-a-dope retort during The Rumble in the Jungle against George Foreman.
—Beren Cross, The Athletic, 3 Feb. 2025
In the eyes of so many around the world, survivors like Umlauf's very existence is a resounding act of defiance against the world-historic cruelty and vast injustice of Adolf Hitler’s reign of terror.
—NBC News, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Resounding.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resounding. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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