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diligence

[dil-i-juhns] / ˈdɪl ɪ dʒəns /


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I just hope that they do their due diligence.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

By neglecting to make individual determinations, the judge wrote, the city “failed to do its due diligence, making its actions arbitrary and capricious.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The judge said he had "let down the whole profession of solicitors whose professionalism and diligence the criminal justice system depends on daily".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

“You shouldn’t be jumping into this head first without having done really strong due diligence on the products.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

A goat hopped up on one of the carts and then to the roof of the diligence.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

One of the due diligences will include on the safety culture in Newcrest mines, the company said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 27, 2023

On looking up and down, Rollo saw a great number of bridges crossing this stream, with teams and diligences, and in one place a long troop of soldiers passing over.

From Rollo in Geneva by Jacob Abbott

Once in the early morning, and once again about five o’clock in the evening, were they momentarily galvanised out of their listlessness by the arriving and departing diligences.

From Above the Snow Line by Clinton Thomas Dent

I hate travelling at night and I hate diligences.

From Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope

The public diligences are few in number, and most miserably managed.

From Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Sir Archibald Alison




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