decisively
Americanadverb
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in a way that settles a matter and puts an end to debate or speculation.
The question, "Do habitable conditions for life exist elsewhere in the galaxy?" has been decisively answered in the affirmative.
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in a firm and resolute way, without wavering.
The Executive Office must be able to move quickly and decisively to preserve endangered ecosystems, history, or prehistory on federal land.
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in a clear or definite way; indisputably.
She has not only decisively beaten but ended the political career of every candidate who ran against her.
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They insisted that culture is downstream from economics and is decisively shaped by economic forces.
From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2020
Freud had the field all to himself and his writings decisively shaped the public view of Breuer, which persists to this day.
From Scientific American • Jun. 30, 2015
“As C.E.O., Michael Diekmann decisively shaped and developed the company. He successfully steered Allianz through the financial crisis.”
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2014
The face of this nation is decisively shaped by the Federal Government.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had a tanned yet ruddy, decisively shaped face, with crisp hair and moustache beginning to go iron-grey—the face of a man who knows his own mind and is contented with that knowledge.
From The Patrician by Galsworthy, John
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