assiduous

Example Sentences

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The U.S. assessment attributed the escapes to mismanagement by Syria’s government and a lack of assiduous custody of the camp’s large security perimeter, the U.S. officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Norris' success in 2025 was the consequence of a big step in performance in the second half of the season, after assiduous work with his team on improving following a difficult first few races.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

Powell’s assiduous outreach to his colleagues gives him a good overview of where the proverbial bodies are buried, giving colleagues ample time to voice their objections.

From Barron's • Dec. 12, 2025

A top-notch campus alone does not produce academic achievement — and, conversely, a brilliant teacher and an assiduous student in a one-room schoolhouse can make for an upstanding education.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

In his final years, the old man, a teacher of mathematics in our elementary schools, had kept assiduous track of Bibi’s illness in hopes of determining some logic to her condition.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri