doggedly

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Recent Examples of doggedly An end-user can simply command the AI to do a cleanup, wait and see what happens, and if needed, go ahead and repeat the declaration doggedly. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025 For the last 20 years, Lisa Speer has been working doggedly to protect biodiversity and environmental interests in international waters, commonly known as the high seas, which cover half our planet. Bonnie Tsui, Time, 15 Sep. 2025 The author presciently realizes the potential for Facebook as a political force and doggedly pursues a job there, eventually landing as the Facebook director of global public policy. The Know, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025 But perhaps nowhere is the study of literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages more valued, their spirit more authentically preserved, their frontiers more doggedly pursued, than at Chicago. Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025 These nations had approached teen-pregnancy prevention with the very methods that America had doggedly rejected for decades. Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for doggedly
Adverb
  • The bristles are neither too floppy nor too stiff, neither too long nor too short, and are cut to the perfect rounded shape that’s just right for swirling pigment over the apples or spreading it along your cheekbones—without having to work too hard for a completely natural finish.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Eagles went chasing on a third-and-8 situation at the Chiefs’ 33 at the start of the third quarter, and Smith went down hard after a deep pass from Hurts fell incomplete along the left sideline.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Saudi Arabia and the UAE have diligently worked to diversify their military arsenals.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement Despite the fact that Perseverance has been diligently filling its tubes and leaving them on the surface, none of the other hardware for the complicated MSR relay has been built.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Star Trek is different; the resolutely sci-fi voyages of James T Kirk, Jean-Luc Picard, and their successors on the final frontier are much more likely to be underpinned by science or, at least, the franchise's version of it.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • At the center stands a bronze Caryatid by Louis Félix Chabaud, a classical guardian presiding over a resolutely modern space and anchoring the atrium from below.
    Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The brand has been slowly but steadily growing its own store fleet — even as the sisters remain determinedly behind the scenes.
    WWD Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Hydrolyzed proteins replenish lost amino acids that intensively nourish and maintain hair in a healthy, balanced state.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Often, the soil was intensively and industrially farmed only a few years ago.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Armani was an intensely private man but had a longstanding personal relationship with his business partner, the architect, fashion designer and businessman Sergio Galeotti, who died of complications from AIDS in 1985.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
  • These dangers could be exacerbated by workplace conditions and policies that don’t allow for behavioral changes that could help regulate body temperatures, such as taking short breaks or working less intensely.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Cohn listens intently, chiming in every so often to throw softball questions that set his team up to shine.
    Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The Catalan giants were keen and, in Zwolle, Reijnders’ old team-mates followed the story intently.
    Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • But the Americans, in full knowledge of Putin’s plans months in advance, assiduously did nothing to suggest a response other than sanctions, which Putin was prepared to withstand.
    Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The writer of the book about the stepfather also began to work assiduously at school, getting top grades in every subject.
    Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025

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“Doggedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doggedly. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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