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diligence

[dil-i-juhns] / ˈdɪl ɪ dʒəns /


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Now that states have skin in the game, they are doing more due diligence.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Kroenke has not done the usual due diligence that would precede a sale — meeting with team management and touring the stadium — and has not introduced himself to officials from the city of Anaheim.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

The police watchdog added: "We consider Mr Guildford may have failed to ensure due diligence and the highest level of scrutiny over such an influential document."

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

More likely, it would persuade big business to pursue due diligence instead of profits over people and the environment.

From Salon Aug. 19, 2026

It was a charming space, damp and colorful and thriving due to Clare’s diligence.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

Two diligences painted blue, as well as other vehicles, had arrived from Genoa and Nice.

From The Jew by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski

On entering Normandy, Master Lewis engaged passages on diligences, wherever a promise of a route amid pleasant scenery offered itself.

From Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands by Hezekiah Butterworth

It was one of the line of diligences between Campeachy and Merida, and just arrived from the former place.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens




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