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- she was an athlete with true grit, continuing her training despite bad weather and an injury
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“Grit.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grit. Accessed 19 January 2020.
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