sedulous

Example Sentences

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Among the advantages that billionaires receive due to their wealth is sedulous defenses by journalists and other camp followers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2022

She recommends unstinting regard for language and sedulous habits of self-revision; then she throws in, like an afterthought, an extra moral dimension: “Work on your character.”

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2019

The same refreshing sense of dorkiness that blew me straight back to eighth grade while watching it may be inseparable from the sedulous faithfulness to the text that makes this adaptation somewhat awkward.

From Slate • May 31, 2019

Crafting elegant parcels of tilled earth requires scrupulous alignment, each seed sedulous placement and tending.

From Time • Oct. 6, 2017

And that, following an assessment of his sedulous performance over the years, the distributor was promoting Mr. Dalai to manage the College Street branch.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri