Synonyms for urgently
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1. urgentlyadverb

   Antonyms:
   apathetically, half-heartedly

2. urgentlyadverb

   With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.

   Synonyms:
   pressingly, imperatively

   Antonyms:
   apathetically, half-heartedly

3. urgentlyadverb

   Continuously. With insistence.

   He pleaded urgently for release from what he considered to be an unjust imprisonment.

   Synonyms:
   persuasively, persistently

   Antonyms:
   apathetically, half-heartedly

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1. urgently, desperatelyadverb

   with great urgency

   "health care reform is needed urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash"

   Synonyms:
   desperately

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1. List of paraphrases for "urgently":

   urgent, emergency, desperately, quickly, sorely, badly, immediately, promptly, urgency, rapidly, swiftly, expeditiously, absolutely, contingency, speedily

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1. Mohamed El-Erian:

   After the Brexit referendum, the UK has to urgently get its political act together, 'Plan B' depends on the politicians in London and across the Channel, but so far they have not stepped up to their economic governance responsibilities.

2. Thomas Kirschning:

   At a time when our neighbours urgently need help, we would like to do our part...as an act of cooperation and humanity to take on the patients and help them.

3. Sheikh Salman:

   In this time of uncertainty surrounding soccer's world governing body FIFA, it is clear that what is needed, more urgently than ever, is a firm hand to run the world body competently and with a determination to conduct its affairs professionally and with maximum transparency.

4. Samuel Wasser:

   We are currently losing an estimated 50,000 African elephants a year to poaching, and there are only about 470,000 elephants remaining in the population. So, that is about a 10th of the population being lost each year, this loss rate must be contained. Stopping (ivory) demand is too slow to do it alone. We urgently need to stop the killing.

5. Lindsay Maxsted:

   As previously stated, these shortcomings are unacceptable and we are determined to urgently fix these issues and lift our standards.