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doggedly
adverb as in firmly
adverb as in hard
adverb as in obstinately
Strong matches
Weak matches
- bullheadedly
- contumaciously
- determinedly
- firmly
- fixedly
- headstrongly
- indomitably
- inflexibly
- intractably
- opinionatedly
- persistently
- pertinaciously
- pigheadedly
- recalcitrantly
- resistantly
- resolutely
- resolvedly
- staunchly
- steadfastly
- stolidly
- tenaciously
- unamenably
- unflinchingly
- unimpressibly
- unreasonably
- unreasoningly
- unrelentingly
- unwaveringly
- unyieldingly
- willfully
adverb as in stubbornly
Example Sentences
Cronin and his staff doggedly pursued Nikolas Khamenia, a star forward from Harvard-Westlake, as part of an intense recruiting battle that ultimately went in Duke’s favor when Khamenia announced last month that he would become a Blue Devil.
But while rubbing shoulders with Formula 1 stars and feeling the rumbling roar of their engines, the shy teen got his first real taste of the life he was doggedly chasing.
At this very moment, some of Harris’ big Silicon Valley money guys want her to fire Federal Trade Commission boss Lina Khan, who has doggedly pursued antitrust actions against tech giants like Google, Meta, and Amazon.
“We are working doggedly on that, whether it’s destroying their agencies’ notion of independence from the president … whether that is thinking through how the deportation would work.”
The 39-year-old Vance went on to argue that kids "who grew up in my generation" ended up with "family dysfunction" because couples are no longer "doggedly determined to stick it out."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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