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Recent Examples of aggressively
If the plank begins to smolder aggressively, lightly mist the edges with water.
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Staff,
FOXNews.com,
3 July 2026
The crew and the two witnesses said one of the three men got out with a dog and then moved aggressively towards the crew while shouting racial slurs targeted at the photographer.
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Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
2 July 2026
Across industries, CEOs are pushing their organizations to deploy AI faster, scale AI initiatives more aggressively and embed AI into every corner of the business.
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Shane Buckley,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
Club holdings and hyperscalers Meta Platforms , Alphabet , Amazon , and Microsoft have all aggressively raised capital expenditures to keep pace in the heated AI arms race.
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Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
2 July 2026
The Vatican responded so aggressively in part because the group poses something of a threat by representing a parallel, ultra-Catholic, pre-Vatican II church that has grown in the decades since its original break from Rome.
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Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
What does this do to the balance of power in the East, where so many teams are aggressively trying to win now?
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David Aldridge,
New York Times,
2 July 2026
Even so, Glinyanov allowed that Caterpillar’s premium valuation ultimately depends on the biggest AI companies continuing to spend aggressively on new data centers and power infrastructure.
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
2 July 2026
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
3 July 2026
The crew and the two witnesses said one of the three men got out with a dog and then moved aggressively towards the crew while shouting racial slurs targeted at the photographer.
—
Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
2 July 2026
Across industries, CEOs are pushing their organizations to deploy AI faster, scale AI initiatives more aggressively and embed AI into every corner of the business.
—
Shane Buckley,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
Club holdings and hyperscalers Meta Platforms , Alphabet , Amazon , and Microsoft have all aggressively raised capital expenditures to keep pace in the heated AI arms race.
—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
2 July 2026
The Vatican responded so aggressively in part because the group poses something of a threat by representing a parallel, ultra-Catholic, pre-Vatican II church that has grown in the decades since its original break from Rome.
—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
What does this do to the balance of power in the East, where so many teams are aggressively trying to win now?
—
David Aldridge,
New York Times,
2 July 2026
Even so, Glinyanov allowed that Caterpillar’s premium valuation ultimately depends on the biggest AI companies continuing to spend aggressively on new data centers and power infrastructure.
—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
2 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aggressively
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While the city writ large is divided on Mamdani, Democratic primary voters strongly favor the 34-year-old democratic socialist who won in an upset a year earlier, according to Bradley Honan, a Democratic pollster.
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Where assortments were once strongly driven by trends, today the starting point is the customer.
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Gauff has had trouble playing assertively enough to close out matches, and arrives in southwest London with baggage about a lackluster history on grass.
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After sitting a bit on the sidelines in the early days of the generative AI boom, risk-adverse finance departments are more assertively using these tools, with 75% reporting using AI compared to just 30% two years ago.
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The few street names in Happy Haven were determinedly upbeat, with Christian undertones.
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Wall Street has been determinedly upbeat about the war in Iran resolving in a relatively short window.
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Burnout, by contrast, is a harder reason for many owners to say out loud, especially when the business is still healthy, and the outward signs of success remain firmly in place.
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Meloni was firmly in the fold at a late June meeting in Berlin with the leaders of Germany, France, Britain and Poland.
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On this resolutely French island, the interior showcases Italian classic modernism, with furniture by Molteni and a sculptural Minotti kitchen.
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But on a recent Wednesday at Stanford Medicine’s cancer center in Palo Alto, the boy climbed resolutely into the chair of a first-of-its-kind treatment device, focused for the task ahead.
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Tuchel’s approach might, at least, be grimly appropriate for a tournament whose organizers would surely like everyone to focus on the action, and ignore the stench of corruption and xenophobia in the air.
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For her part, Gianina is just trying to stow away enough earnings to support her daughter, Maria (Sofia Dragoman), who lives with her grandmother (Liliana Ghita) in a grimly anonymous village in the countryside, and to save for an anticipated Christmas reunion in Romania.
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At the end of a two-week trial, the verdict went strongly in favor of Maria Avila, who was viciously attacked by Hades, a 200-pound Caucasian shepherd owned by Brown, while emptying trash outside the singer’s Tarzana, California house.
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Anyone angry enough to punch someone else in the head that viciously should go straight to jail.
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Nevertheless, the decidedly pro-Argentina crowd of 70,649 at the home of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys was eager to see him.
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At its $499 starting price, the Nothing Phone 4a Pro phone offers a premium aluminum build that houses decidedly mid-tier specifications.
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