doggedness

Example Sentences

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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

Thompson’s affability, he added, could disguise his intelligence and his street-fighter doggedness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Those numbers could be gathered in any number of means, each of which was in its own way a test of your resourcefulness, doggedness and the trust you’d earned.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2023

Often underestimated by his opponents and sometimes by his supporters, Sanchez gained a reputation for doggedness when, as opposition leader in 2016, he stuck to his "no means no" mantra against enabling a conservative government.

From Reuters • Jul. 6, 2023

I just knew that my doggedness and personal motivation would trump any training these guys had.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson