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pertinacious

adjective as in resolute

adjective as in obstinate

adjective as in bullheaded

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It proved to be an extreme endurance test, and so it figures that James, the pertinacious King of the league, would carry the Los Angeles Lakers past all of the obstacles.

Despite this, the pertinacious ranger does possess the precious commodity of self-knowledge.

They are anything but a phlegmatic people, yet they are obdurate, they are pertinacious, they finish plastering joints.

Second, we are an ingenious, resourceful and pertinacious species.

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The pertinacious meme that we would somehow benefit from eating more saturated fat, and thus its principal sources – meat, butter, cheese – is a product of misinterpretations of sequential answers to a series of dubious questions.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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