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Some people might still develop some sort of infection a second time, he says, and if they mount a strong immune response, they may not get seriously ill, but they may still shed the virus and infect other people.

Those drugs may keep seriously ill people from dying and help them recover faster, but it would be far better to keep people from getting so sick in the first place, scientists say.

Though children appear less likely to become seriously ill or die than adults, youngsters do get infected.

Sporty women have selected their position on the gender binary, we’re told, and must double down to be taken seriously.

If stakeholder interests are to be taken seriously, stakeholderism should be rejected.

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Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

“They sure took the Sony thing seriously,” Attkisson said dryly.

Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.

If mercy is not preached by a national figure we take seriously, our battles over policy power will grow ever more merciless.

All 101 passengers survived but four were seriously injured.

Mrs. Charmington hastened to spread the report that his Royal Highness was seriously smitten.

Children, like uneducated adults, have been known to take a spectacle on the stage of a theatre too seriously.

If he would take her a little more seriously—it 's an immense pity he married her because she was silly!

Sam buttoned the will carefully in a side pocket; intimating by a look meanwhile, that he did mean it, and very seriously too.

I say "we," because another is mixed up in this business even more seriously than the Kaiser.

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On this page you'll find 74 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to seriously, such as: actively, earnestly, passionately, sincerely, vigorously, and gravely.

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

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