faithfully

adverb

Definition of faithfullynext
as in precisely

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faithfully
  1. precisely
  2. ideally
  3. rightly
  4. exactly
Adverb
  • And now, Democrats are forced to grapple with precisely how to respond.
    Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024
  • These leaders tend to demonstrate greater resilience through hardship precisely because their driving force transcends individual success.
    Jennifer Kamara, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of precisely
Adverb
  • Start by choosing a food-grade barrel, ideally around 55 gallons, to keep the water safe for your plants.
    Claire Marks, Austin American-Statesman, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Because what really drives most of us to stay with a big and difficult novel is our desire to figure out what’s happening, in higher-order ways if not merely on a literal level, so that our ideas about stories, or the world, or ourselves, or, ideally, all of that, are changed.
    Randy Boyagoda, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of ideally
Adverb
  • In the process of voting against SpaceX, commissioners rightly suggested that Musk is a liar and scofflaw whose representations cannot be trusted.
    Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Trump also wanted to wind down commitments abroad yet ended up, rightly, shifting to a more confrontational approach vis-à-vis China, and that requires vast new resources that need to come from somewhere.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
Definition of rightly
Adverb
  • But what’s funny is how specific both systems are—like today, TikTok tutorials show exactly how to apply makeup with dots and lines all over your face, blending it out with brushes.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2024
  • So, expecting to have a budget go exactly as planned every month is a sure-fire way to be frustrated and disappointed over and over again.
    Bernadette Joy, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
Definition of exactly
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