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diligence

[dil-i-juhns] / ˈdɪl ɪ dʒəns /


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The institution will also have to undergo an independent review of its programs for monitoring suspicious activity, and on other forms of due diligence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Don’t let a fancy offer document bedazzle you and deter your due diligence.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 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

Though she was a rank beneath Lac, she was the perfect combination of diligence, talent, and drive.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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

From Reuters ● Apr. 27, 2023

We sweep around this promontory and gain the last bay where lies Fluellen—a ragged village, swarming with tourists, vetturinos, and diligences.

From An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton

The days when the diligences of Europe drew up before an old-time inn, with the sign of a pewter plate, an écu d'or, a holly branch, or a prancing white horse, have long since disappeared.

From The Automobilist Abroad by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

We are now informed that the "mail-coaches and diligences have been found to answer so well that they will be generally adopted throughout the kingdom, and conveying of them in carts will be discontinued."

From The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time by Robert Charles Tombs

The roar of torrents, and hardly less thunderous noise of departing diligences, awakened us the next morning.

From An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton


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