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diligence

[dil-i-juhns] / ˈdɪl ɪ dʒəns /


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As part of his due diligence before his latest purchase, Moran called up a few mortgage lenders for quotes before he pulled the trigger.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

The institution will also have to undergo an independent review of its programs for monitoring suspicious activity, and on other forms of due diligence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Don’t let a fancy offer document bedazzle you and stop you from doing your due diligence.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Projects still have to go through due diligence and meet conditions to get the money, the official said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Outside under the window were some carts and an old diligence, the wood of the roof cracked and split by the weather.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

One of the due diligences will include on the safety culture in Newcrest mines, the company said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 27, 2023

Still less pleasant were the immense journeys afterwards by Finstermuntz and the Great Arlberg, along horrible roads and in wretched diligences, which, in these days of luxurious railway travelling, we should think perfectly unendurable.

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare

We are now informed that the "mail-coaches and diligences have been found to answer so well that they will be generally adopted throughout the kingdom, and conveying of them in carts will be discontinued."

From The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time by Robert Charles Tombs

Most of the omnibuses and diligences had gone.

From Rollo in Geneva by Jacob Abbott

I described her at all the Dover stages and diligences; for I intended to give her a trifle more, to help her to find her friends, for fear of her falling into bad hands.

From The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney


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