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/ɹɪˈlɛntləsli/
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/ɹəˈlɛn(t)ləsli/
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- Canada
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/ɹɪˈlentləsli/
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- Australia
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/ɹəˈlentləsli/
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ɹɪˈlɛntləsli
Adverb
In a relentless manner. In a manner unrelenting or unyielding in severity; unrelentingly.
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Near-synonyms: harshly, pitilessly, ruthlessly
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For sleep, he knew, kept most relentlessly / Its precious charge, and silent death exposed, / Faithless perhaps as sleep, a shadowy lure, / With doubtful smile mocking its own strange charms.
He said gardaí had responded professionally to "thuggish violence" in the area and those arrested would be "charged, named and dealt with relentlessly" by the criminal justice system.
In a relentless manner. In a steady and persistent manner; unceasingly.
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My friend is one of thoſe people, vvho having formerly cut a very gay figure in the vvorld, is ſtill ambitious of ſpreading the May-bloom of tvventy-five upon the vvinter of threeſcore; and deſirous of diſplaying in the fulneſs of his ſpirits, that ſprightlineſs and vivacity vvhich time has relentleſsly taken from his perſon: […]
The vision must be shared. The leadership team must believe in it and pursue it relentlessly, along with the leader herself.
Adverb
in a relentless manner
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he worked relentlessly