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Noun
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In Louisiana, roughly 80 such prisoners have not yet had resentencing hearings, due partly to prosecutors’ adamancy and ongoing court fights but also to funding shortages for attorneys to take these cases, legal advocacy groups say.—
NBC News,
NBC News,
15 May 2020 -
Prince Harry has expressed his adamancy in making sure the mega-popular Netflix series doesn’t portray his and wife Duchess Meghan’s relationship and tabloid turmoil for the television screen.—
Bianca Betancourt,
Harper's BAZAAR,
22 Jan. 2020
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These poems are plainspoken, emotionally direct, haunted by the past and the inexorability of time.—
Vince Passaro,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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But then there is that deadness that enters into the closing chapters, which might as easily be called inexorability.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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The Red Sox could also try to move on from Masataka Yoshida, though his contract, injury history and positional inflexibility will hamper his trade value.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
16 Jan. 2026
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Roster inflexibility could further complicate matters.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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The Home Service Insurance segment experienced a decline in premiums, attributed to strategic actions to improve sales quality and persistency, as well as economic pressures such as inflation.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
13 Mar. 2025
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The tannins are well structured yet soft and the wine has great persistency in the finish.—
Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen,
Robb Report,
2 May 2023
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No one tells the story of water in California’s heartland in more detail, or with more tenacity, than Lois Henry.—
James Rainey,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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But tenacity is the creed of everyone in their small village, and the people who live there may be exactly what the doctor ordered.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
21 Jan. 2026
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For me, there’s always the perversity of getting on a trendy bandwagon and just liking it for the irony.—
Marc Malkin,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
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Here, Henkel leans into the inherent perversity that lingered in the sequels but has rarely been effectively employed since Hooper’s original.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Sep. 2025
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Rye and apple brandy are fast friends—the apple brandy adding an autumnal echo to rye’s grainy persistence.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
24 Jan. 2026
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Passion and persistence powered the effort.—
Gary Drenik,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Wallace, by implication, was concerned with patience, steadfastness, and tranquillity precisely because these virtues often eluded him in life.—
Hermione Hoby,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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The prize for this steadfastness is playing the next Super Bowl halftime show.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
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