rigor
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“We’ve got to have the guard-rails in place. We’ve got to have that rigor around cost transparency, around security, around privacy, around education.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
That revision was undertaken with analytical rigor: The process took two years, involved 35 agencies, incorporated extensive new and existing research, and elicited over 20,000 comments.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Co-author Talal Aladaileh said that the project's evolution from a classroom exercise into a published paper reflects the rigor, depth, and quality of the School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering program at Binghamton.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
“She is very hardworking, and she’s extremely committed to the projects she does. That commitment and that rigor is contagious.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Once removed from its pore, the hair immediately stiffened in rapid rigor mortis.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
It’s hard to put yourself in the flow of the rigors of all the great musicians that came before you and in your time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The 1984 musical, inspired by the painter Georges Seurat’s 1886 pointillist masterpiece “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” explored the rigors and rewards of the artistic process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
One might also point to American consumers, who haven’t moderated their beef buying enough to subject the commodity to the rigors of supply-and-demand economics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
The German, who logic says should be eaten alive by the horrible rigors of his job at Ibrox, also looks like he's revelling in the gig.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2025
While my teachers labored over the rigors of their chosen subject, I sat in the back, pretty much bored out of my mind.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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