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- adjective
superlative form offirm : mostfirm .
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Examples
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Bossuet called the firmest support of Gallican liberties.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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Would they reverse their firmest principles after being exhorted by The One?
Latin America 2010
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Israel is the first, the firmest and the truest democracy in the Middle East and its people have great sympathy for ordinary Egyptians.
Alan Elsner: U.S. Must Safeguard Regional Stability as It Handles Egypt Crisis Alan Elsner 2011
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Israel is the first, the firmest and the truest democracy in the Middle East and its people have great sympathy for ordinary Egyptians.
Alan Elsner: U.S. Must Safeguard Regional Stability as It Handles Egypt Crisis Alan Elsner 2011
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The former president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, today gives his firmest indication yet that he will return to the country in a move that could further shake up the already febrile political climate.
Haiti's former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide vows to return 2011
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Would they reverse their firmest principles after being exhorted by The One?
Canada 2009
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Plus: This simple-to-operate machine—with digital display, auto shut-off and nifty jars that let us mark the date we made the yogurt—consistently produced the firmest, best-tasting yogurt.
WSJ Test Kitchen: Yogurt Makers Laura Moser 2011
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Not the firmest data set, sure, but not just a single bit of anecdata ..
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It was certainly true that the globalization consensus seemed firmest in places where the international political and business elite gathered, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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Mr. Gingrich in the 1980s was hungry and ambitious, and no one had prepared the way for him, which is actually his firmest claim on outsiderness: he was no fortunate son.
The GOP Takes a Wild Ride Peggy Noonan 2012
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