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Which animal is often used to symbolize diligent activity?

diligent

[dil-i-juhnt] / ˈdɪl ɪ dʒənt /


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"Helen was well respected. She was diligent and hard working," Grant told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

County Sheriff’s Department — could have affected their ability to engage in the surrogacy process, if a surrogacy firm conducted a diligent background check of the aspiring parents, according to two civil attorneys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

These two shocking facts have been revealed by the diligent digging of finance professors Joshua White of Vanderbilt University and Sean Wilkoff of the University of Nevada, Reno.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The elderly Douglass insisted that the country needed not new founding principles but the diligent application of those principles it already possessed without distinctions of race, sex, color or religion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

On the side of knowing better were his mother and father, all the teachers he knew, the deacons from church, Booker T. Washington, and the diligent faculty of the Tuskegee Institute.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez


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