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as in loud
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as in noisily
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Recent Examples of loudly
Witnesses told officers the couple had been loudly arguing near the east side of the walking bridge at the lake.
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Timia Cobb
breaking News Reporter, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026
While the French film industry, like Hollywood, is overwhelmingly liberal (think of the walkouts at the César Awards when accused statutory rapist Roman Polanski won best director in 2020), some of the biggest Gallic stars of yesteryear have loudly bucked the trend.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 3 Jan. 2026
Guidance encourages people to speak loudly, remain calm and slowly back away.
—Alan Gionet, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
When the choir was singing, the older of these two women started singing along, loudly, while everyone else in the congregation was quietly listening.
—Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2026
Birds sing loudly in the morning because dawn cues their bodies to start communicating after a silent night.
—Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 31 Dec. 2025
Many in the crowd cheered loudly for Golden State.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Dec. 2025
Vance loudly rapped his fist on the conference table in support.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 30 Dec. 2025
Surely putting this on, loudly, should generate enough friction in your household to drive off guests — of any political affiliation — who've overstayed their welcome.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loudly
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But [the fans] were singing really loud.—
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Protesters used whistles and tambourines to keep chants loud outside Austin City Hall as passing drivers honked in support.—
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Sparrows that had flown down into the roofless atrium chirped noisily.—
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Fireworks were bursting noisily in the sky of Inwood that night.—
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But the sentiment — quelling a craving, fueling a fervor, feeding the psychic hunger of a fanbase famished for reasons to celebrate ostentatiously — is applicable more broadly, too.—
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Foster’s creation attracts attention by being ostentatiously conservative.—
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Unused to the diet, heat and poor hygiene, Ramírez fell ill, though neither diarrhea nor stomach cramps prevented him from complaining vociferously about his accommodation, arguing with his instructors about tactics and questioning his hosts’ more grandiose claims of military prowess.—
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By coming so vociferously to the shooter’s defense, Vance full-throatedly committed himself to the MAGA mission of enforcing respect by any means necessary.—
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Carruthers was by far the more amiable of the two, striving to seem tractable and reasonable while nevertheless lying flamboyantly.—
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The writing was pure, yet every column was lined with flamboyantly tasteful advertisements; the magazine was a kind of literary cash cow.—
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Spotted in the locker room after the game, Ball remained in relatively good spirits, boisterously chatting it up with his teammates.—
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The doctor himself is characterized sometimes by boisterously chattering lines, sometimes by semi-Wagnerian bombast; at the end, his music turns elegiac, implicitly undercutting his dreams of beginning anew.—
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One play after a Jalen Hurts fumble — and only three plays into the second half — the Philadelphia Eagles were trailing the Los Angeles Rams 26-7 in their NFC championship game rematch, with an offensive effort that was lustily booed by the home crowd.—
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The White House stridently disagreed with Conley.—
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And Bina remains as stridently anti-Joanne as ever, banning her from the Roklovs’ weekly Shabbat dinner and blaming her when Noah is passed over for the promotion.—
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“Loudly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loudly. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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