single-minded

Example Sentences

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The revolutionary pharoah builds a great city and reduces spiritual chaos by focusing on a single-minded form of worship.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

This may yet be a brilliant piece of foresight by the FA to keep one of the best, most single-minded, successful coaches in world football.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

When that level of single-minded intensity is brought to reforming the physical body, Campbell said, it can set the conditions for other kinds of extremism.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2026

This year, all three are dialed toward stimulus, reflecting a single-minded focus by Trump and Congressional Republicans on faster economic growth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

It’s weird, Noise, but almost wordless, cresting the hill in front of us and rolling down, single-minded but talking in legions, like a thousand voices singing the same thing.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness