stick-to-itiveness
Example Sentences
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Notably, stick-to-itiveness isn’t the same as thick skin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
It is your independent work with advisers and your stick-to-itiveness that are more important.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2018
And then last month Old Glory closed suddenly, and it looked like Meredith’s plaque and some 700 or so other shiny monuments to spirited and single-minded stick-to-itiveness would be lost forever.
From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2018
Grit is a popular buzzword in the education world used to describe the type of determination and stick-to-itiveness students must embrace if they want to succeed.
From US News • Dec. 31, 2015
The seeking of Truth, Dorothy, requires effort, /stick-to-itiveness/, to use your terms, for in your persistence, in your search, is the thing that will bring you results.
From Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz by Evans, Robert J.
