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diligence

[dil-i-juhns] / ˈdɪl ɪ dʒəns /


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“KKR’s legal department cannot perform diligence at the level of a single woman on a first date.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026

She said from the outset there "wasn't an appetite to change the legislation", but the family's "diligence and determination" to articulate the tragedy they were experiencing changed that.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

That includes doing your due diligence to understand union regulations and how to protect your intellectual property.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

"Helen Haines is characterised by her kindness, her compassion, her diligence, her intelligence," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

As she moved through the examination, Cora got the impression she was being conveyed on a belt, like one of Caesar’s products, tended down the line with care and diligence.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

One of the due diligences will include on the safety culture in Newcrest mines, the company said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 27, 2023

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 Robert Charles Tombs

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 Mary Stuart Boyd

Think of nights spent in diligences or in horrid inns, and long walks and drives to see the pretended beauties or wonders of a country.

From The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence by Eug?ne Sue

Two diligences painted blue, as well as other vehicles, had arrived from Genoa and Nice.

From The Jew by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski


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