determination
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It’s the environment, but then it’s about whether you have the personality, the drive, the determination.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
She accepted that the trial judge must make the ultimate determination.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026
“He could relate to my problems, my environment. The drive, the determination, not to give in to the ghetto, to make something of my life, stems from my relations with him.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
He spoke after French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz voiced determination to rescue the programme.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
I felt pain, and then I felt ire; and then I felt a determination to subdue her—to be her mistress in spite both of her nature and her will.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing determination
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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"I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr.
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