press forcefully
Frequency: 6.88.4 per million words
To insist on a point or claim with determination.
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- During the meeting, she pressed the point forcefully until the team agreed.
- They press forcefully for immediate action when safety is at stake.
- The lawyer pressed the witness forcefully but within the rules.
- If challenged, I will press my claim forcefully in writing.
- He is pressing forcefully for a review of the policy.
- Community leaders have pressed forcefully for change over the past decade.
- The union plans to press forcefully during the next round of negotiations.
- Her statement pressed the issue forcefully, leaving no room for doubt.
- We must not press forcefully when a softer approach would work better.
- By raising the same concern again and again, he has been pressing it forcefully without becoming rude.