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tenaciously

adverb as in stubbornly

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If the hackers are indeed from Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence agency, as experts believe, their resistance may be tenacious.

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But between the needles she shoved into collapsing veins, Grace fought tenaciously for a way out.

Make sure everyone understands the rules, and then stick tenaciously to them.

Just so, the Romney campaign has tenaciously clung to financial privacy.

With no place to run, the dictators can only cling to power more tenaciously.

It will hold tenaciously there, the last of its race, days after the decay of its greener and more healthy-looking mates.

Bruce presently came up with large reinforcements, but the castle held out tenaciously, and surrendered only to famine.

He clings tenaciously to his unintelligible language, and is quite certain that he is superior to the whole human race.

The great point is gained, compelling Lee to abandon the ground which he has held so tenaciously.

The nobles and the clergy adhered tenaciously to their privileges, and the Court would curtail none of its unnecessary expenses.

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On this page you'll find 72 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tenaciously, such as: adamantly, decisively, doggedly, persistently, resolutely, and staunchly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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