Definition of "affirmatively" []

• In an affirming manner. (adverb)

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• "LIEBERMAN: Let me put it affirmatively which is what I really mean."
• "In its suit, the center says U.S. alcohol regulators are only supposed to permit the use of ingredients that the Federal Drug Administration has "affirmatively" determined to be "generally recognized as safe.""
• "Say that the next step was putting an insect in the dark box with him-this was proposed for Abu Zubaydah-and the interrogators, whatever they hinted, didn't "affirmatively" say that it was poisonous ..."