be diligent
Example Sentences
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Officials say that to combat the spread, ranchers must be diligent about covering wounds on their livestock, to prevent screwworms from taking hold.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
For tracking to be useful, you have to be diligent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025
But if you don’t know anyone in the industry, be diligent about saving and investing the money that you’re making from your day job or side gigs.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025
That forces you to be diligent, treading up and down the rows of plots until you find the person you’re looking for.
From Slate • Oct. 24, 2024
‘My master, Mr. John Hancock, Esquire, bids me leave these coins—one for each of the poor work-boys—hoping they will drink his health and be diligent at their benches.’Then he was gone.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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