as in resolute
fully committed to achieving a goal
every successful reform movement has been spearheaded by a single-minded activist who refused to accept defeat
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Recent Examples of single-minded
Such crimes are usually driven by a very real agenda or single-minded goal.
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Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 13 Dec. 2025
Why Dick is suddenly eager to help with Shaw’s mission is beyond me, but Leroy remains frustratingly single-minded himself.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
Reform’s platform is threadbare, marked by a single-minded obsession with immigration as the root of seemingly every social ill and offering mass deportations as the solution.
—Oliver Eagleton, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
And who better than the single-minded Big Tech execs.
—Alexandra Ebert, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2025
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Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 13 Dec. 2025
Why Dick is suddenly eager to help with Shaw’s mission is beyond me, but Leroy remains frustratingly single-minded himself.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
Reform’s platform is threadbare, marked by a single-minded obsession with immigration as the root of seemingly every social ill and offering mass deportations as the solution.
—Oliver Eagleton, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
And who better than the single-minded Big Tech execs.
—Alexandra Ebert, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for single-minded
Recent Examples of Synonyms for single-minded
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Millennials, resolute in their fatigue, are less swayed by surface-level marketing and more attuned to what actually makes work sustainable.—
Jasmine Browley,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Universal Friend was independent, resolute, and brave—qualities that we Americans often claim as uniquely ours—but also stubborn and egotistical.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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She was pronounced dead at the scene, and her cause of death was later determined to be blunt force trauma to the head, the Athens-Clarke County Coroner’s Office and Morgue confirmed to PEOPLE.—
Lynsey Eidell,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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Two years later, Poppy is determined to get them back on track.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
10 Jan. 2026
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More than anything, O’Leary is intent on branding himself a champion of capitalism.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2026
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The members of NewJeans had originally seemed intent on appealing the decision before ultimately deciding to open up talks of a return with Ador.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
31 Dec. 2025
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“Single-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/single-minded. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.
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