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forcibly

[ fawr-suh-blee ]

adverb

  1. using power or strength, especially violent physical power:

    A man leapt onto the platform, shouting and waving an umbrella, and security guards had to forcibly remove him.

    The organization continues to provide safe asylum and protection to forcibly displaced people around the world.

  2. strongly or convincingly:

    With this particularly active hurricane season, coastal communities are being forcibly reminded of their vulnerability.

    The writer argues, very forcibly, that a cyber war will not take place.



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  • ܲ·ڴǰ·· adverb
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He says if people were forcibly disappeared, it was not done under the direction of Hasina - who remains in India, where she fled - or anyone in her cabinet.

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It added: "We call on the international community to pressure the occupation authorities to immediately release our colleague, medic Assad, who was forcibly abducted while carrying out his humanitarian duties."

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In 2020, a Chihuahua woman was killed during clashes between National Guard troops and Mexican farmers, who forcibly blocked dams that were being used to send flows from the Rio Grande to the U.S.

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If Flores is forcibly removed from the duplex, he plans once again to sleep in his van, an outcome that would violate what he believes is the state’s responsibility to house the poor and elderly.

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“Most people forcibly sent to El Salvador were unrepresented,” she wrote on X. Referring to their detention in Texas, she added, “Trump purposefully moved them to remote detention centers in TX pre-rendition.”

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