Killing a process

In order to kill a process I am using pkill -9 -f ${PROCESS_NAME}
It usually works fine, but sometimes I get a feedback that the process
is not running while in fact it is running.

Is there another way to make sure the process is really down?

(Sorry, I'm kinda new to this thing...)

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