stiffly

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Adverb
  • Sporting responded strongly after conceding the two goals.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 2 Mar. 2025
  • With Rhodes strongly favored to decline The Rock’s offer, there was also a possibility of Rock finding his own Manchurian champion to do his bidding against Rhodes.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • The surviving record is contradictory about how vigorously prosecutors tried to find Chinese witnesses.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Our ideals—as well as our bodies—need to be guarded by a wall of allies that fight vigorously with us against any foe.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Jane’s fiercely unforgiving tone was adopted by militant Irish nationalists for whom the famine stood as the ultimate proof of English perfidy.
    Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • In a fiercely divided country, many saw the cutbacks through their own political lens.
    Matt Sedensky, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • Drivers can lean hard on front tires during corner exits, and the rear end plays right along, with nary a hint of unwanted surprises.
    Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The market's recent slump has hit shares of tech giant Nvidia and some other formerly high-flying areas of the market particularly hard.
    COMPILED BYDEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFFFROM WIRE REPORTS, arkansasonline.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, Adams spoke powerfully about how police leadership needs to step up.
    Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Hollywood mostly left politics at home, but two documentary filmmakers spoke powerfully about Palestinian rights.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 3 Mar. 2025
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