1
as in completely
to a full extent or degree
only with daybreak did we fully realize the extent of the damage from the storm
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as in systematically
with attention to all aspects or details
wanted to be fully involved in the project
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Her priorities include getting guns off the streets, fully investing in public education and prioritizing affordable housing.
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Rebecca Grapevine, The Courier-Journal, 13 Sep. 2024
Hurricane season may be heating up Francine isn't the only storm on the map: Forecasters are also tracking four other disturbances across the Atlantic, which now appears to have fully woken up from its recent slumber.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024
Because of cost considerations and shifts in strategy, Congress voted to decommission their missile base, along with the four other sites that made up the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, in October of 1975, one day after the facilities became fully operational.
—Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
When Eric fully embraces his powers and begins to slaughter those who wronged him, some of the kills are admirably gross, but many feel especially gratuitous, carried out at the expense of the tenderness and fragility of his courtship of Shelly.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2024
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Rebecca Grapevine, The Courier-Journal, 13 Sep. 2024
Hurricane season may be heating up Francine isn't the only storm on the map: Forecasters are also tracking four other disturbances across the Atlantic, which now appears to have fully woken up from its recent slumber.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024
Because of cost considerations and shifts in strategy, Congress voted to decommission their missile base, along with the four other sites that made up the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, in October of 1975, one day after the facilities became fully operational.
—Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
When Eric fully embraces his powers and begins to slaughter those who wronged him, some of the kills are admirably gross, but many feel especially gratuitous, carried out at the expense of the tenderness and fragility of his courtship of Shelly.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2024
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“Fully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fully. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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