Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a steady manner; firmly; fixedly; steadfastly; intently; without wavering or flinching; without intermission, deviation, or irregularity; uniformly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a steady manner.
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- adverb In a
steady manner.
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- adverb at a steady rate or pace
- adverb in a steady manner
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Examples
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Omar also welcomed what he described as steadily decreasing tensions surrounding the Western Cape's transport crisis.
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Though a stranger in the house he finally isolated himself in the midst of the company, huddling into a capacious Morris chair and reading steadily from a thin volume he had drawn from his pocket.
Chapter 31 2010
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Mr. Baker has raised plenty of money and run hard, but his inexperience with political atmospherics is reflected in steadily rising disapproval ratings.
Deval Patrick's Charm Offensive Jon Keller 2010
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Voldemort menaces, he gets about — like Sauron, he is always “on the move” or “gathering his forces” — but he never achieves the Sauronic heaviness, that power-drone of malignancy broadcasting steadily from the tower of Barad-dûr.
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Voldemort menaces, he gets about — like Sauron, he is always “on the move” or “gathering his forces” — but he never achieves the Sauronic heaviness, that power-drone of malignancy broadcasting steadily from the tower of Barad-dûr.
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As Congress has debated stimulus and bank bailout packages running into the trillions of dollars, the future has been described in steadily increasing apocalyptic terms.
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Also, Billy stayed away from home longer hours, and was again steadily drinking.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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But this will result in steadily diminishing cable performance and in the long-term, replacing cables every week or so is not as cheap as it seemed at first.
Resistance is futile: Sealed cable options for a hassle-free cyclocross season. 2010
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In the past half decade the broadway theater has descended steadily from a central, viable part of our national culture (where admission cost two or three times the price of a movie) to a specialized, rarefied tourist attraction (where admission is now at LEAST 9 times that of a movie ticket.)
Rocco Landesman Answers Your Broadway Questions - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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And since there proceeds steadily from the southeastern corner of Europe a stream of events which are a danger to me, which indeed for years threatened my safety and deprived me forever of many benefits, that is to say I know nothing of my own destiny.
Balkan Epic 2007
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