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Recent Examples of diligence The earliest adopters will unlock faster diligence, sharper insights, and more LP dollars flowing to their funds. Don Muir, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 The league might be skeptical that the Clippers were merely ignorant of the Aspiration-Leonard relationship and question why the team didn’t undertake more diligence. Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 Sep. 2025 Mental health disease is…a disease like any other than needs to be treated with the same compassion, diligence and commitment as cancer or heart disease. Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025 The case for investing in Africa has been helped by growing discipline and diligence among investors, especially as leverage in fundraising negotiations has shifted away from startups to investors. Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for diligence
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Noun
  • What To Know According to the Associated Press (AP), the vote enables the county Board of Supervisors to approve rent relief efforts to tenants who cannot afford to pay their monthly costs of living due to the immigration crackdowns.
    Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Doug McMillon, the company’s president and CEO, said the latest partnership with OpenAI is merely a powerful extension of the company’s own AI efforts and plans.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Lee is hardly the first biographer to be wooed by the allure of her subject; to risk being squashed by the weight of her research; or to concede that, despite her assiduity, much will elude her grasp.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
Noun
  • Her story is one of persistence, innovation, and an unwavering belief that healthcare should serve every stage of life, from young adulthood to the later years.
    Maria Williams, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The material maintains the processability and transparency engineers need while solving PLA’s marine persistence problem.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the early days of the post-colonial United States, Long Island farms supplied New York City, while the whaling industry thrived in Sag Harbor.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • This year's Big Sugar Classic also features many kinds of public group rides, cycling industry gatherings, clinics and other events, according to the Big Sugar Classic website.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His possession-by-possession attentiveness was not good.
    Josh Robbins, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Viewer Reactions Instagram users instantly flocked to the video, touched by Rusty's attentiveness and curiosity.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The sequel, set for October 2026, centers on a young Facebook engineer named Frances Haugen (played by Mikey Madison) who teams up with Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) on a risky mission to bring attention to Facebook’s biggest secrets.
    Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Mamdani is going to be the mayor of their district, of their -- of their city, and that's why there's so much attention on this.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Diligence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diligence. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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