drastically
Americanadverb
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so as to have a thorough or far-reaching effect; profoundly or radically.
Our everyday lives have been drastically altered by the huge number of innovations in medicine, transportation, communications, and more.
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extremely.
This school should be merged with others in the same locality, as the number of students studying here is drastically low.
Etymology
Origin of drastically
Example Sentences
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If there’s any hope of moving forward on a human, one-to-one level, how we treat each other must be drastically reexamined.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
"AI transforms a 'needle-in-a-haystack' search into a data-driven selection process, drastically shortening the timeframe between diagnosis and vaccine construction," he said.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
Each was the top scorer on their former squads — Washington State and Utah, respectively — and have taken on drastically different roles as arguably the fourth and fifth pieces of this Bruins team.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026
Investors have drastically scaled back their bets: Interest-rate futures showed Thursday afternoon that traders see a 45% chance that the Federal Reserve doesn’t cut rates at all in 2026, according to CME Group.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Since the body actually holds less than half of this amount, most people who were bled so drastically passed out at some point in the procedure.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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