rigor

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Because when you strip away the scaffolding, when you set aside the tone and the length and the performance of rigor, what remains is not complicated at all.

From Slate • May 8, 2026

So it took a real rigor for me to know that if I wasn’t where I needed to be, I had to get better.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

“After several years of increased innovation and tighter financial rigor, efforts are manifesting in a materially healthier financial profile and growth trajectory,” Altmann wrote in a note Friday.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

Ms. Lemann was commissioned by Vanity Fair to report on the trial but her piece never ran in the magazine due to its amusing lack of journalistic rigor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Sophie Sassoon’s face: it was created with the rigor of a sand painting blown grain by grain by Tibetan monks.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides