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Recent Examples of single-minded The more the movie goes on, the more Alma seems a monster of single-minded drive. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025 These scenes are some of the strongest, as Pellerin impressively modulates Matthew’s turn from endearingly cringey to terrifyingly single-minded. Eric Torres, Pitchfork, 27 Aug. 2025 Fifty years later, Nye and Keohane, longtime colleagues and friends, reunited for a final time in Foreign Affairs’ pages, to argue that President Donald Trump’s single-minded fixation on hard power risks weakening the real sources of U.S. strength. Foreign Affairs, 24 July 2025 Kevin Vance has been single-minded in his two weeks as San Diego State’s baseball coach. Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for single-minded
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Adjective
  • Cody Balmer stood outside an iron fence surrounding the resolute brick mansion, waiting and watching the home where his target slept.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • His fitness record and resolute performances playing a big role in helping Everton survive during a turbulent chapter in the club’s modern history.
    Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Broncos seemed determined to splatter Ragu on Mona Lisa.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Bernadette Fox, a brilliant but agoraphobic architect, mysteriously disappears, sending her 15-year-old daughter, Bee, on a determined search.
    Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The group faces their biggest threat yet in the form of the Saja Boys, a rival boy band comprised of demons intent on stealing HUNTR/X's fanbase and feasting on their souls.
    Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Some of the safety rails are being gamed by users intent on finding workarounds.
    Bobby Allyn, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Single-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/single-minded. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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