stick-to-it-iveness
Example Sentences
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Hawk’s stick-to-it-iveness is the stuff of legend — his quest to land the sport’s first 900-degree spin spanned four White House administrations — but his approach to this rehab is, in technical terms, bananas.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2022
Vance that what the region lacks isn’t resources but stick-to-it-iveness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2020
I admire the stick-to-it-iveness, I guess you’d say, of the people who had the foresight to invest in the turnpike and invest in the future of transportation.
From Washington Times • Oct. 3, 2015
“Maybe there is inevitability that he will be the candidate just because of his stick-to-it-iveness over the last four years, but I don’t see any additional willingness to sign on,” Mackey said.
From BusinessWeek • Nov. 11, 2011
We looked like Dorothy's Kansas friends in The Wizard Of Oz and we admired Tom Edison and his good old gumption and stick-to-it-iveness.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
