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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a decisively" is not correct in standard written English as it lacks a noun to modify.
It can be used in contexts where an adjective is needed to describe a noun, but it should be part of a larger phrase.
Example: "The team made a decisively strategic move in the game."
Alternatives: "a clear" or "a definitive".
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In 1892, "Kullervo" had a decisively successful première in Helsinki.
There were more crescendos from Low, a decisively stylized band from Duluth, Minn.
Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding marked a decisively new direction for modern philosophizing because it proposed what amounts to a new criterion of truth.
Does the advent of a new era of urban populism under de Blasio suggest that the country is moving in a decisively liberal direction?
He has successfully pushed a decisively conservative agenda through the legislature, often over the veto of Gov. John Lynch, a Democrat.
Needless to say, this is a decisively male and modern version of Jewishness, much influenced by the histrionic pugilism of Philip Roth's weaker novels.
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Finally, on Feb. 9, 2003, Mr. Kass made a decision: to "decisively" kiss her.
One exception is the Senate race in which Senator Gordon H. Smith, a Republican, decisively beat Bill Bradbury, a Democrat.
A rather impressive resurrection for a nutrient decisively nailed into its coffin 13 years prior.
In the coastal state of Goa, a mining scandal helped swing an election decisively in favor of an opposition political party.
But what Zhang did not find were statistics painting a picture decisively worse than before.
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