powerfully
adverb
pow·er·ful·ly
ˈpau̇(-ə)r-f(ə-)lē 
: in a powerful manner
She expressed her opinions very powerfully.
: to a strong or powerful extent
a powerfully moving film
a powerfully aromatic dish
a powerfully built athlete
He was powerfully influenced by their advice.
Neither words nor the most detailed painting can evoke a moment of vanished time as powerfully and as completely as a good photograph.—
Beaumont Newhall
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began to row powerfully toward the shore
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But in recent years, investigators have uncovered chemical and electrical cross talk between neurons and cancer cells that powerfully fuel a tumor’s growth.
—Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025
But more crucially, the body is rendered as a consistently fraught site on which identity is fomented and complicated, turning Schimberg’s film into a slyly constructed and powerfully caustic doppelgänger tale.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
These are all ways of taking away people’s power because dance has something that powerfully connects us and connects communities, connects us back to the earth.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
Son of Sam and Delilah (1991), a frenetic collection of inner-city scenes united by the presence of a homophobic serial killer, speaks most powerfully to these tragic realities.
—Beatrice Loayza, ARTnews.com, 6 Feb. 2025
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Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025
But more crucially, the body is rendered as a consistently fraught site on which identity is fomented and complicated, turning Schimberg’s film into a slyly constructed and powerfully caustic doppelgänger tale.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
These are all ways of taking away people’s power because dance has something that powerfully connects us and connects communities, connects us back to the earth.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
Son of Sam and Delilah (1991), a frenetic collection of inner-city scenes united by the presence of a homophobic serial killer, speaks most powerfully to these tragic realities.
—Beatrice Loayza, ARTnews.com, 6 Feb. 2025
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“Powerfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/powerfully. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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