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attentive and persistent effort
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Recent Examples of industry
The conflict over Aduhelm laid bare the FDA’s struggle to reconcile pressure from industry and desperate patients with its rigorous evaluation of drug risks and benefits.
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Arthur Allen, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
His father is Jetrin Wattanasin, a legend in the Thai music industry, though Jaonaay frames that influence practically rather than romantically.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Sep. 2025
Carlyle has become the team’s exclusive partner in the investment management industry.
—Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Steve has more than 40 years of food industry experience in his native Hong Kong and in the Bay Area, where the couple lived and owned various eateries for two decades.
—Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
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Arthur Allen, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
His father is Jetrin Wattanasin, a legend in the Thai music industry, though Jaonaay frames that influence practically rather than romantically.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Sep. 2025
Carlyle has become the team’s exclusive partner in the investment management industry.
—Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Steve has more than 40 years of food industry experience in his native Hong Kong and in the Bay Area, where the couple lived and owned various eateries for two decades.
—Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for industry
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The merging of the modern and traditional is an effort to help people find God in a new way, said Reverend Jason Roberson, the head priest at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, and to mark the church’s entry into a new century.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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With the sandboxing proposal, companies could identify regulations that are obstructing their efforts, and ask for a waiver.—
Emily Wilkins,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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The other end of the spectrum are breaks that happen when a single application of force is applied to the bone.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Green then explained the medical and industrial applications for these new knits.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
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While individual particles may be microscopic, their sheer numbers and persistence pose a long-term hazard.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Sep. 2025
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Other risks include data poisoning, context hijacking and large language model (LLM) memory persistence, where cached queries or context reuse could expose sensitive information to subsequent users.—
Camellia Chan,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 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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“Industry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/industry. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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