faithfully

adverb

Definition of faithfullynext
as in precisely

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Recent Examples of faithfully Alyssa Lareau, who left the Civil Rights Division’s Federal Coordination and Compliance Section last year after concluding that anti-discrimination laws such as Title VI were no longer being faithfully enforced, was similarly torn. — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 Heck, Hammond probably expresses the spirit of Chicago more faithfully than much of Chicago these days. — Will Kamin, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026 College football Saturdays run on repetition, with the same soundtrack, symbols and rituals repeated so faithfully that generations of fans know the cues. — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026 My employees worked for me in good faith, trusting that their paychecks and taxes were being managed faithfully and that their livelihoods were secure. — Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2026 Because LLMs can’t reliably distinguish between content in an email sent by an untrusted party and user instructions entered directly into a prompt, the overly solicitous LLM faithfully follows them. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2026 Software emulation can still get the job done, just not as faithfully. — Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 The veteran photographer provided Gunn great assistance in faithfully recreating the summit, and the photos Souza took have a striking resemblance to the original photos from ‘86. — Barry Levitt, Time, 14 Aug. 2026 Maybe my memory of this trauma preserved the terror of the experience — the pops, the shouting cops, the cold asphalt — more faithfully than the map of my surroundings. — Margrét Ann Thors, PEOPLE, 2 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for faithfully
  1. precisely
  2. respectably
  3. correctly
  4. ideally
  5. appropriately
  6. rightly
  7. decently
  8. fittingly
Adverb
  • Its maximum totality will occur just southeast of Luxor, Egypt — precisely 16 seconds short of the maximum duration on July 22, 2009.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Paradoxically, this kind of cognitive dissonance is possible precisely because of the saturation of public awareness with this knowledge and the hefty costs of acknowledging it.
    — Abdelrahman ElGendy, Time, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of precisely
Adverb
  • Jones performed respectably in his first taste of postseason baseball, going 2-for-8 with two runs scored in the games against the Red Sox.
    — James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Fine text and small features were generally well resolved, while overhang performance held up respectably without excessive stringing.
    — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 10 June 2026
Definition of respectably
Adverb
  • Beyond supplying payload deployment structures — the hardware that helps a satellite, sensor, solar array or other payload survive launch and then deploy correctly in space — Applied Aerospace manufactures the landing gear components.
    — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The platforms that come through these periods intact are rarely the ones that guessed the cycle correctly.
    — Khalifa Aldhaheri, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of correctly
Adverb
  • Celebrity guests accompany the contestants, ideally helping and not hindering them, to an all-or-nothing final, where one test decides everything, including the true identity of the player.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Just as a still concentrates a large batch of weak liquid into a smaller batch of strong stuff, AI distillation condenses a big model into a smaller one that, ideally, acts like the original.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of ideally
Adverb
  • The credit ecosystem will continue to recognize these human achievements, while finding ways to appropriately recognize the contributions of their AI collaborators.
    — Jeffrey S. Flier, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Regulation and governance will be an ongoing project, so budget appropriately for that.
    — John Bruggeman, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of appropriately
Adverb
  • And in a region already suffering from aid shortages, and anticipating even greater food insecurity from this year’s El Nino, humanitarians are rightly nervous about a potential catastrophic fallout.
    — Cameron Hudson, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Some churches have rightly been accused of being partisan, hypocritical and discriminatory toward women and minorities.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of rightly
Adverb
  • Aledo played decently against the run, but allowed three long touchdown runs of 77, 55 and 33 yards against Martin with the other 25 rushing attempts netting zero yards.
    — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The kitchen and bathroom are decently renovated, if monochromatic and unexciting.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of decently
Adverb
  • There's a fittingly witchy gift shop filled with all sorts of tchotchkes and collectibles, including spell books, tarot cards, cups for reading tea leaves, and a selection of history books.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The first points at the new Ryan Field went to — fittingly enough — the Wildcats when Jackson Kleather booted a 50-yarder between the uprights to cap off Northwestern's maiden drive in their new home.
    — Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of fittingly

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“Faithfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faithfully. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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