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diligence

[dil-i-juhns] / ˈdɪl ɪ dʒəns /


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Successive governments have opted for a lighter voluntary due diligence regime.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

It takes a certain kind of person to tackle end-of-life decision-making with clarity and diligence.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

“Since it’s the first movie to capture the whole thing in 70mm Imax, it’s my due diligence to see it like that.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

One case featured a vice mayor in southwestern China who allegedly chased quick results by approving titanium plants and signing billions of yuan of investment deals without proper due diligence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

When he passed by the silver shop, which Úrsula had prepared with special diligence, he did not even notice that the keys were in the lock..

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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 Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix

When we alighted at the station two diligences were waiting, one for Pollensa, the other for Alcudia.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart

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 Tombs, Robert Charles

I recall that of old the professors accompanied their pupils as far as the starting place of the diligences in the Rue Notre-Dame-des-Victoires.

From My Recollections by Massenet, Jules




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