steadily

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Recent Examples of steadily For instance, at one point the actor costumed as the ape in his lair behind the scenes moves steadily towards the camera, his proportions swelling to gigantic visual proportions. Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025 Sarich Architects The spotlight is on affordable housing programs as the nation’s housing crisis continues, construction costs steadily increase, and the government continues mandates for more efficient processes. Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 Food service at the airport, though, has steadily become increasingly important, especially since airlines long ago abandoned complimentary meal service on domestic flights. Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025 Before all this, India and the United States had been growing steadily closer for nearly three decades. Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025 The brand has been slowly but steadily growing its own store fleet — even as the sisters remain determinedly behind the scenes. Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025 Since then, Cracker Barrel has become a cookie-cutter corporate chain, steadily losing its Southern flavor. Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025 At present, the ETI has been falling steadily since around 2022 while employment nonfarm employment has continued to track upwards. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025 Having established Laura and Cherry’s mutual animosity right away, The Girlfriend pushes them steadily toward that confrontation teased in the first moments. Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for steadily
Adverb
  • This article is being continuously updated.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In healthcare, agents might be tasked with coordinating patient care across numerous services, continuously staying up-to-date on relevant studies around treatment and medication, and autonomously tracking and responding to pandemics and public health issues.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Aside from these Netflix originals, the streaming platform is also home to a vast number of other documentary films and series that will surely stand the test of time and span a variety of topics.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 10 Sep. 2025
  • For Barker, announcing the deal with three of Hollywood’s great horror producers surely helped drive anticipation for Obsession and drove Focus and other buyers to mark it as a must-watch out of the festival.
    Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Kirk frequently attacked mainstream media and engaged in culture war issues around race, gender and immigration, often in a provocative style.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • With the frequently audible director alternating between frat boy giddiness and genuine concern at Sheen’s antics, the actor appears entirely in control, a product of seven years of professed sobriety.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The former pandemic boomtown of Denver is now solidly a buyer's market, as the latest data shows that inventory of for-sale homes in the city is now at its highest level in more than a decade.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Braun acknowledged the national political pressure but emphasized that Indiana is already solidly Republican.
    Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • This guide will give you the full scoop on when and how often to test soil, and provide soil testing tips for home and lab-based testing.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025
  • However, nothing negates the unique way in which people from the South embrace socializing with each other, which brings us to a potentially awkward situation that arises often enough and gives grief to even the most polite Southerners.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Teenagers, however, log on more frequently, engage more intensively and increasingly define their social identity through online interactions.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The impacts were greatest in occupations that used mathematics and computing intensively, such as software development, and much less in blue collar work and fields such as healthcare that were less prone to being automated with AI.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Manchester, currently serving a 40-year sentence at Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina, repeatedly called Tatum and director Derek Cianfrance to give them his stranger-than-fiction story.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Different women went through the process differently, but researchers noted that words like freedom, choice, strength and liberation appeared repeatedly in their accounts.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • For instance, Schultz has steadfastly fought against performing blood transfusions in the field, despite the federal government offering billions of dollars in grants to pay for them.
    Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But safety and beauty, like dignity and love, are values DeSantis steadfastly refuses to acknowledge.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025

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“Steadily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steadily. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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