Synonyms for be in earnest
be in earnest

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1. be in earnest

   Synonyms:
   be serious, be not jesting

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1. Matthew Jafarian:

   During the NBA bubble is really when we started researching, in earnest, how we could bring back fans safely into the arena.

2. Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek:

   The EU is currently doing the impact analysis, and we are doing the impact analysis, and we're hoping that at the latest some time in the beginning of 2017 negotiations could start in earnest.

3. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

   Life is real; Life is earnest; And the grave is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

4. Chris Remington:

   The massive redemptions that occurred in 2014 and in the opening of 2015 have largely abated, and short-term rates haven't started rising yet so increased retail buying hasn't begun in earnest.

5. Charles Dickens:

   I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.