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Recent Examples of adamancy
In Louisiana, roughly 80 such prisoners have not yet had resentencing hearings, due partly to prosecutors’ adamancy and ongoing court fights but also to funding shortages for attorneys to take these cases, legal advocacy groups say.
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NBC News, 15 May 2020
Prince Harry has expressed his adamancy in making sure the mega-popular Netflix series doesn’t portray his and wife Duchess Meghan’s relationship and tabloid turmoil for the television screen.
—Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Jan. 2020
Anthony’s adamancy, the eloquent obviousness of her observations on gender, comes across in Thomson’s music through understatement.
—Mark Swed, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
Gremminger said she and another passenger were concerned that the dog would not be safe inside the overhead bin, but assumed that the flight attendant's adamancy meant that there must be air ventilation inside the compartment.
—Author: Martine Powers, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2018
NBC News, 15 May 2020
Prince Harry has expressed his adamancy in making sure the mega-popular Netflix series doesn’t portray his and wife Duchess Meghan’s relationship and tabloid turmoil for the television screen.
—Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Jan. 2020
Anthony’s adamancy, the eloquent obviousness of her observations on gender, comes across in Thomson’s music through understatement.
—Mark Swed, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
Gremminger said she and another passenger were concerned that the dog would not be safe inside the overhead bin, but assumed that the flight attendant's adamancy meant that there must be air ventilation inside the compartment.
—Author: Martine Powers, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adamancy
Noun
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The tough, ingenious (and dirt-poor) Houthis, protected by Yemen’s mountainous interior, fought back with the tenacity of drug-resistant microbes.—
Seth Harp,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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This should look like living your values (such as honesty, vulnerability, respect, enjoyment, curiosity, tenacity, risk-taking and learning from mistakes) every single day.—
Bill Flederbach,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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An impressive defensive coach, he has occasionally been criticized for a certain regular season inflexibility in his rotations and overplaying his best contributors.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Sep. 2025
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However, the reality is that the inherent inflexibility of immutability is essential to ensuring business resiliency and provides the invaluable peace of mind that comes with knowing data will always be there, ready to be recovered, no matter what.—
David Bennett,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Be Steadfast and Immovable In a world of shifting market dynamics, steadfastness in mission and values can serve as a compass.—
Bhakti Mirchandani,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Our steadfastness has always been grounded in prudent investing and social justice values.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
5 Aug. 2025
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But when companies dig in, persistence alone isn’t enough.—
Christopher Elliott,
Mercury News,
20 Sep. 2025
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And with that, the modern Cinderella story continues—proving that sometimes, magic is less about fairy godmothers and more about persistence, pivots, and the courage to start building your own AI Agent.—
Sandy Carter,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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But then there is that deadness that enters into the closing chapters, which might as easily be called inexorability.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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Rather than conjuring a mood of bracing inexorability, this linear focus only suffocates what might be an interesting debate, as a man of the modern world weighs his values against those of a woman raised in atavistic isolation.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Hot Ones host Sean Evans delivered a poignant motivational speech during a surprise appearance on popular Twitch streamer Kai Cenat’s Mafiathon 3 livestream on Wednesday, offering insight and advice related to patience and perseverance wrapped in his signature down-to-earth style.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 Sep. 2025
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Alex, meanwhile, has finally earned her right to stay at UBN after three seasons of perseverance.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
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The Home Service Insurance segment experienced a decline in premiums, attributed to strategic actions to improve sales quality and persistency, as well as economic pressures such as inflation.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
13 Mar. 2025
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The tannins are well structured yet soft and the wine has great persistency in the finish.—
Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen,
Robb Report,
2 May 2023
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Here, Henkel leans into the inherent perversity that lingered in the sequels but has rarely been effectively employed since Hooper’s original.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Sep. 2025
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The perversity of government stakes in private companies is made even clearer by other Washington antics.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Adamancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adamancy. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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