assiduousness

noun

Definition of assiduousnessnext
as in diligence
attentive and persistent effort with painstaking assiduousness investigators finally cracked the case of the stolen works of art

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  1. diligence
  2. assiduity
  3. effort
  4. persistence
  5. industry
  6. industriousness
  7. attentiveness
Noun
  • From there, the work is readiness, including custody and key-management standards, AML and sanctions controls, third-party diligence and narrow pilots with hard guardrails.
    — Manny Khan, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Kardish brings it out with diligence, insight, admiration, and wonder.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of diligence
Noun
  • While the Queen Mother was very fond of this Queen Victoria tiara and wore it with relative assiduity, her daughter only wore it once in public, on an official trip to Malta in November 2005.
    — Ana Serrano, Glamour, 7 Dec. 2025
  • These indestructible treasures have always been buried in matter, awaiting the invention of scanning electron microscopes and scientists with enough assiduity to spend decades on end peering into their atomic eyes.
    — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
Definition of assiduity
Noun
  • Clay did not respond to questions Friday about the status of efforts to recover the money or whether the department is considering legal action.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2026
  • State law bars judges from adding items to the ballot after Tuesday, a tight deadline that could scramble Hanaway’s efforts to overturn the ruling.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of effort
Noun
  • Security teams should prioritize execution paths where code can access secrets, create persistence or make system changes, then apply pre-execution controls that can stop or constrain artifacts when their behavior falls outside policy.
    — Ken Ammon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Hoban says she’s learned that bringing the vintage toys back to life often requires patience, persistence and a little imagination.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of persistence
Noun
  • Blitzer’s first option to take over majority control is after the 2027 season, multiple industry sources told The Athletic under condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Dong Lijuan, chief statistician at NBS, attributed the rebound in inflation to volatile global commodity prices, seasonal food price gains, and rising demand in high-tech industries, according to a statement accompanying the release.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of industry
Noun
  • The Beehive State gets its nickname from the industriousness of its workers.
    — Scott Cohn, CNBC, 11 July 2026
  • The Big East will cast a wide net to find someone with a vision, and Ackerman-level resourcefulness and industriousness by next fall.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2026
Definition of industriousness
Noun
  • The opening up to the friendship with Renata, the attentiveness with Luis, and not being set on killing Negan are monumental changes for her.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Thanks to the controller’s attentiveness, a possible mid-air collision may have been prevented, especially if the pilots operating the individual planes thought the controller was giving them the same flight instructions.
    — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of attentiveness
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“Assiduousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assiduousness. Accessed 11 Sep. 2026.

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