pertinacious

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It proved to be an extreme endurance test, and so it figures that James, the pertinacious King of the league, would carry the Los Angeles Lakers past all of the obstacles.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2020

Despite this, the pertinacious ranger does possess the precious commodity of self-knowledge.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2020

Not even so vital and pertinacious a people could have built this country without the two unique institutions that guided them: the army and the big trade union organization known as Histadrut.

From Time Magazine Archive

The chests held the private papers of James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson and pertinacious observer of the 18th Century in general.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are anything but a phlegmatic people, yet they are obdurate, they are pertinacious, they finish plastering joints.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin