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absolutely

If something is absolutely true, correct, etc., it's 100% so. I agree. You're absolutely right. I'm not absolutely sure, but I think it's OK. If something is absolutely beautiful, brilliant, etc., it's very much so. "It was wonderful," Martha said. "Absolutely wonderful! The best!" You say there is absolutely nothing, to emphasise that there is nothing. I have absolutely no idea why he said that.

absolutely

(= perfectly, utterly, dead) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers an absolutely magnificent painting a perfectly idiotic idea you're perfectly right utterly miserable you can be dead sure of my innocence was dead tired dead right totally and definitely; without question we are absolutely opposed to the idea he forced himself to lie absolutely still iron is absolutely necessary

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Simple sentences

Absolutely impossible.
I was absolutely amazed.
These cookies are absolutely delicious.
I found that absolutely shocking.
There was absolutely no doubt.
Your conduct is absolutely shameful.
It is absolutely impossible.
That's not absolutely certain.
This is where I absolutely disagree with you.
You are absolutely right.
What you are saying is absolutely wrong.
We know absolutely nothing about the bird's life whatever.
I ate absolutely nothing the whole day.
There is absolutely no way that I would go on a trip alone.
It is absolutely necessary that you be at the meeting.
A doctor's instruments must be kept absolutely clean.
Good food and enough sleep are absolutely necessary to good health.
This is where we absolutely disagree with you.
Now that you are in Italy, you must absolutely see Naples.

Movie subtitles

There's absolutely nothing I can accomplish here!
I'm absolutely a guard.
Absolutely, just friends, yeah.
Oh, uh, yeah, absolutely, sir.
She'll be absolutely devastated.
All I can say is, Caroline Gillespie had better be absolutely gorgeous.
We're often offered a drink to wet the baby's head and we're absolutely forbidden to accept it.
You look absolutely flawless.
And if that sounds flippant I beg you to forgive me because I absolutely did not mean it to.
Oh, there's absolutely no chance of that if you insist on using a commercial pattern.
We absolutely insist.
I've had the water tested repeatedly, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it.
If you absolutely insist on going into work, then I guess I will be going into work with you.
Absolutely not. When you hired me, you were much busier than you are now.
Now then, you're absolutely sure the other one is Arnold Knox?
Absolutely, Ivan.
There's absolutely nothing out there!
You're absolutely right, Doctor.
This is an absolutely extraordinary document!
Certainly not from me. Absolutely not.
Absolutely.
Yes, absolutely.
Absolutely right.
Absolutely not.
Absolutely no one, just as you recommended.
If you don't mind, I'd rather not say, unless it becomes absolutely essential.
Absolutely, Madame Colet.
I absolutely can't make public appearances.
He absolutely can't have bail.
This is absolutely not possible.
We must absolutely not let them have control over us.
It's absolutely not that.
ABSOLUTELY WE ARE.
ABSOLUTELY.
WE ABSOLUTELY DON'T WANT HIM TO KNOW THAT WE'RE ON TO HIM.

News and current affairs

Whatever the case, casting the fight against terrorism as a war has led American policymakers to multiply violent military operations that have absolutely no chance of winning hearts and minds in the Muslim world.
There is absolutely nothing about Golden Rice that should require endless case-by-case reviews and bureaucratic dithering.
The IMF is absolutely right to remind ministers each April of downside risks.
There is absolutely no indication so far that organized networks or religious groups are manipulating these youth.
This entails abandoning the prevailing dogma that taxes should only be increased when absolutely necessary.
Many people believe that the Socialists would not privatize the economy or slash welfare systems if such measures were not absolutely necessary.
Absolutely not.
But, while abolishing energy subsidies is absolutely essential to balance the budget and put the economy on a sound footing, these steps also risk hitting eastern Ukraine, which contains a substantial Russophone minority, particularly hard.
There are some absolutely first-rate individuals who could step into the job, people who have shown their command of economic development, their intellect and personal integrity, and their political and managerial skills.
The International Monetary Fund is thus absolutely right in arguing that excessively front-loaded and synchronized fiscal austerity in most advanced economies will dim global growth prospects in 2013.
West Germany or France produced absolutely more dollars worth of output per hour worked than the US.
The answer is more likely to be found in the Treaty's simplification, taking out those elements that are not absolutely necessary, and also enriching it in such areas as climate change.
But evolutionary progress is always preferable to revolutionary upheaval, and, despite all the difficulties of genuine incremental reform, the prospects are not absolutely hopeless.
San Francisco - From Adam Smith (1776) until 1950 or so, capital was considered by economists to be absolutely essential for economic growth.
Israel can serve as an example to others striving to reach economic prosperity and social freedom, because its success is due to the fact that the country had absolutely nothing at the start.
Outside the context of war, in turn, state killings are legal only if they prove absolutely necessary to save lives.
Indeed, I can attest from personal experience that to debate her is to encounter someone who is absolutely certain of facts that must exist somewhere in a parallel universe.
This war, therefore, will simply make it more difficult to engage with those countries at the very moment such talks are absolutely necessary.
Are Western leaders right to assume that the two challenges are distinct, and that containment will suffice in the case of Russia, while rollback is absolutely necessary in the case of the Islamic State?
Indeed, even as China's agenda in Hong Kong has become increasingly tough - and thus unpopular locally - Leung has proved himself to be absolutely loyal to China's rulers.
Though the ECB has absolutely nothing in common with the old Deutsche Bundesbank, the German public has not recognized this.
No, the real risk is that, if the Fed starts hiking, it will be blamed for absolutely every bad thing that happens in the economy for the next six months to a year, which will happen to coincide with the heart of a US presidential election campaign.
In postcommunist Eastern Europe, Germany is no longer perceived as an absolutely dependable advocate of the region's needs.
There is a seemingly universal belief that America should absolutely refrain from military action, condemn the Islamic Republic's human rights abuses, and express moral solidarity with the Iranian people.
The individuals involved in this campaign are not only scientifically uninformed, but show absolutely no interest in becoming better informed.
This also implies that if Greece could escape from its current recession, its national debt would decline, both absolutely and as a share of GDP.

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