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decisively

[dih-sahy-siv-lee] / dɪˈsaɪ sɪv li /






ADVERB
resolutely
Synonyms


Example Sentences

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“If needed, we will respond swiftly and decisively to defend our regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures,” a spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal

“While this strategy was effective during smaller outages, we are now implementing fleetwide updates that provide the Driver with specific power outage context, allowing it to navigate more decisively,” it added.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It won’t be a straight line, but we’re acting decisively to accelerate the lagging areas, with China at the top of that list.”

From Barron's

Sunday's election makes Chile the latest country in Latin America to decisively swing from the left to the right, following Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador and Panama.

From BBC

Australia faces a choice familiar to other liberal democracies: whether to confront antisemitism clearly and decisively or to continue managing it as an embarrassment to be explained away.

From The Wall Street Journal