as in effort
attentive and persistent effort
through the diligence and ingenuity of a single detective, the gang's ringleader was finally caught
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Recent Examples of diligence
Your diligence now will be rewarded in the not-so-distant future.
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Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
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
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
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Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diligence
Noun
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Smaller efforts popped up in Greenland over the years, but nothing came to fruition.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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Supporting the Army’s next phase The M-SHORAD Increment 4 effort is a major part of the Army’s broader modernization strategy.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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Robeson’s persistence against state harassment illustrated how resistance to civil liberties violations can protect and preserve basic citizenship rights, including the right to travel.—
Time,
Time,
20 Oct. 2025
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Ellis’s recognition has grown in recent years, thanks to the care of his friend Allen Frame and to the persistence of those who refused to let his images disappear.—
Alessia Glaviano,
Vogue,
20 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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His possession-by-possession attentiveness was not good.—
Josh Robbins,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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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 23 Oct. 2025.
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