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View definitions for decisively

decisively

adverb as in conclusively

adverb as in emphatically

adverb as in resolutely

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This week, the stock pulled back to its 21-day exponential moving average—a metric that places emphasis on recent price changes—for the first time since moving decisively upward from $260.97 last month.

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The failure to respond decisively is the geopolitical equivalent of runaway deficit spending.

"But we have to decisively address this Republican health care crisis that is devastating hard-working American taxpayers."

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For Leverkusen, there were periods of games when Wirtz would walk or lightly jog to recover, allowing him to use his burst more decisively.

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The Conservatives were voted out decisively in 2024, after 14 years in power, and lack strong popular support at the moment.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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