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After the medical drama ended, Laurie returned to his comedy roots with a recurring role on Veep, developing a fiercely antagonistic chemistry with Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Selina Meyer as her running mate/rival/occasional bedfellow.—
Danny Horn,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 July 2026 Roberts noted that race and citizenship had been fiercely debated in courts, speeches, Congress and battlefields because of Black Americans’ fight for freedom from slavery.—ABC News,
2 July 2026 Despite his age, Messi is still blessed with breathtaking skill, and is also fiercely competitive, even at training.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
2 July 2026 The eyebrow-raising demand sums up why data centers continue to be so controversial with locals, as communities across the country fiercely protest against existing data centers and the construction of new ones.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
2 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for fiercely