1
as in steadfast
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as in unhesitating
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Recent Examples of unfaltering
His flow is fierce and unfaltering, while the choreography is kinetic and intense.
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Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
Even before those darker undertones take relentless hold, there’s an unfaltering, genuine honesty to both the handling of the material and the tender, believable performances of her actors, whose actual ages qualify them as bona fide teens, unlike those often cast in mainstream productions.
—Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
Much of this might have been formulaic in less artful hands, but Kore-eda has an unfaltering lightness of touch, a way of injecting emotional veracity and spontaneity into every moment.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2022
Despite her horror ordeal, spurred on by the unfaltering support from family and friends, brave Dawn is refusing to give up.
—Hayley Richardson and Jane Cohen, Fox News, 9 May 2017
Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
Even before those darker undertones take relentless hold, there’s an unfaltering, genuine honesty to both the handling of the material and the tender, believable performances of her actors, whose actual ages qualify them as bona fide teens, unlike those often cast in mainstream productions.
—Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
Much of this might have been formulaic in less artful hands, but Kore-eda has an unfaltering lightness of touch, a way of injecting emotional veracity and spontaneity into every moment.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2022
Despite her horror ordeal, spurred on by the unfaltering support from family and friends, brave Dawn is refusing to give up.
—Hayley Richardson and Jane Cohen, Fox News, 9 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfaltering
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Despite Aspinall winning the interim crown, UFC CEO Dana White remained steadfast in saying that Jones vs. Miocic was the fight to make.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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From the outset, our firm has maintained that no one is above the law, especially those in positions of power, and that principle remains steadfast.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
12 June 2025
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But its guiding principle this time is not idealism but realism, with an unhesitating embrace of national interests and increased recourse to power politics.—
Sarang Shidore,
Foreign Affairs,
31 Aug. 2023
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Proulx is an unhesitating observer of people and places, neither idealizing nor villainizing, but her acuity depends on a certain distance.—
Michelle Nijhuis,
The New York Review of Books,
30 Mar. 2023
Adjective
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Yesterday’s pangrams were gainful, unfailing and unflagging.—
Julia Jacobs,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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She’s put off by his sweetness, his refusal to respond to her meanness and his unfailing encouragement, expressing pride in her tiniest recovery wins.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Despite the split, she’s been vocal about maintaining a solid co-parenting relationship with Shumpert for their two daughters, Junie, 9, and Rue, 4.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
9 June 2025
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Being vocal about that and rapidly gaining 400,000-plus followers on social media was never part of the plan.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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The production may have noble intentions in depicting domestic abuse in unflinching terms, but Wax seems to have nothing to say about it other than that what is brutal is indeed brutal.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
13 June 2025
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While not directly inspired by his own experiences, Williams drew on his working-class upbringing with family members in and out of prison and a father who disappeared from his life at age 12 to shape a view that’s honest and unflinching but also tempered by compassion.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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Cuba continues to suffer widespread shortages of food and medicine, a collapsing economy and unrelenting state surveillance.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
3 June 2025
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For many, it’s been over 600 days of unrelenting fear and trauma.—
Landon Mion , Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2025
Adjective
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With the help of Elon Musk’s buzz saw, Trump has mounted an unremitting assault on the legislature’s exclusive authority to control federal spending, which is its main leverage over the executive branch in the Constitution’s separation of powers.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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Sure, Premier League clubs were generally profitable at that time — rapid growth in TV rights deals had not yet been caught up, and then trampled over, by the unremitting surge in player wages — but only Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool booked a bigger surplus over those six years than United.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
The Athletic,
18 Mar. 2025
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Her relentless pace is interrupted when a panic attack forces her to take a break.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
10 June 2025
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Ternana were relentless throughout extra-time but couldn’t find the winner.—
David Ferrini,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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“Unfaltering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfaltering. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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