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doggedness

[daw-gid-nis, dog-id-] / ˈdɔ gɪd nɪs, ˈdɒg ɪd- /
NOUN
perseverance
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His doggedness would be almost admirable, if “We Will Dance Again” wasn’t so lazy.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

The memoir displays Dunthorne’s gift for wry understatement and his doggedness as a researcher: he dug through archives, toted around a Geiger counter and even cooked food that his great-grandfather once consumed.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2025

But, just as Midlands rivals Nottingham Forest discovered here in August, United retain some of the old doggedness from the Sir Alex Ferguson days.

From BBC Dec. 26, 2023

Those numbers could be gathered in any number of means, each of which was in its own way a test of your resourcefulness, doggedness and the trust you’d earned.

From Seattle Times Nov. 3, 2023

I did well in school not so much through cleverness as through doggedness.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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