single-mindedness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for single-mindedness
Noun
  • So, how did Cooke appreciate or value Cherry’s tenacity in that way?
    Jeff Conway, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But the tenacity of Kyiv’s forces in holding back the Russian summer offensive has been a remarkable outlier, and wider Russian progress remains a fierce possibility in the weeks ahead.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Long Walk uses the rawness of its spartan premise to venture deep into uncomfortable territory, culminating in an ending that blurs the lines between perseverance and defeat, hope and nihilism.
    James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Her perseverance is a wonder to behold.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Be Relentlessly Persistent My mindset is relentless persistence.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The Bishops’ persistence was rewarded when Maeve Delaney scored off a corner kick, which thrilled the team and head coach Gary Burke.
    Hannah Hughes, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Be Steadfast and Immovable In a world of shifting market dynamics, steadfastness in mission and values can serve as a compass.
    Bhakti Mirchandani, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Our steadfastness has always been grounded in prudent investing and social justice values.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • However, the reality is that the inherent inflexibility of immutability is essential to ensuring business resiliency and provides the invaluable peace of mind that comes with knowing data will always be there, ready to be recovered, no matter what.
    David Bennett, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Structural inflexibility is forcing unnecessary trade-offs.
    Katica Roy, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • If anything, its attention to the sad textures of teenage life seems to acknowledge that for many young people today, paying attention to their own life might feel futile or too small, given the relentlessness of the news.
    Greta Rainbow, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Just getting away from the stresses, the relentlessness of the job.
    Ali Rampling, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Rather than conjuring a mood of bracing inexorability, this linear focus only suffocates what might be an interesting debate, as a man of the modern world weighs his values against those of a woman raised in atavistic isolation.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Single-mindedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/single-mindedness. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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