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imperatively

ADVERB
compulsorily
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This was a high-flown way of saying that bantamweight Switzerland must and will let middleweight Italy buy from or across her whatever Dictator Mussolini imperatively demands.

From Time Magazine Archive

"From this fools' paradise, however, in which we supposed that all we have to do is to keep Hitler at bay until American deliveries win the war for us, we must imperatively and immediately depart."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then Baron Kylsant nodded sharply, pointed imperatively to the empty chair.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old man lifts his stick and waves imperatively, and slowly the column turns and the people take the road that, quite evidently, leads to nowhere for them.

From Time Magazine Archive

He could feel the skillful hand of fate motivating hrm imperatively.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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