doggedness
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Mr. de Moura, brilliant but unassuming, keeps the project on track through sheer doggedness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
His doggedness would be almost admirable, if “We Will Dance Again” wasn’t so lazy.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Surrey were grateful for Sibley who dug in with a doggedness that Warwickshire supporters know well from watching him pass 50 on 16 occasions at Edgbaston.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
The result, in which brave inmate activists Melvin Ray and Robert Earl Council leak vital information, and the filmmakers chase down leads with shoe-leather doggedness, should outrage the nation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
Or imagine a country where Renee’s doggedness is not the exception, but a cultural trait, embedded as deeply as the culture of honor in the Cumberland Plateau.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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