diligence
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Others say that the tragedy lies at Cambridge’s feet for having hired Arday without doing due diligence and setting him up to fail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The Scottish government has promised to directly award the yard new orders for four smaller ships, but ministers say they are still conducting "due diligence" on the plan.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
They’re all skilled musicians, having done their due diligence in different music groups, but nothing has clicked like the parasocial success that is the Something Specials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Whipped up and given a sheen of analytic legitimacy by the Maven, military officials did not do their due diligence in the midst of hundreds of similar, simultaneous strikes.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
For instance, although she continued to discharge her professional duties with all her usual diligence, her general mood tended to undergo swings of a sort I had hitherto never witnessed.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
One of the due diligences will include on the safety culture in Newcrest mines, the company said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 27, 2023
I expedited my journey as well as I could, inquiring everywhere about diligences, and invariably receiving false information.
From Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
This we were obliged to do, as there are no diligences or public conveyances of any description to Chamonix.
From An Impromptu Ascent of Mont Blanc by W. H. le Mesurier
In that year, and for some little time afterwards, coaches which carried the mails were called diligences or machines, and the coachmen were called machine-drivers.
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce
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
Vocabulary lists containing diligence
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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This Week In Words: August 24–30, 2019
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