doggedness
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Mr. de Moura, brilliant but unassuming, keeps the project on track through sheer doggedness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
His doggedness would be almost admirable, if “We Will Dance Again” wasn’t so lazy.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Rangers deserve credit for their doggedness in a crisis - and that's pretty much all you can say about a game that will scarcely see out the night in the memory bank.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2025
The result, in which brave inmate activists Melvin Ray and Robert Earl Council leak vital information, and the filmmakers chase down leads with shoe-leather doggedness, should outrage the nation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
We lost the flare of excitement and we had not yet put on the doggedness of a long war.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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