doggedness
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Mr. de Moura, brilliant but unassuming, keeps the project on track through sheer doggedness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
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 sheer determination and doggedness were not enough to stop Swiatek or Krejcikova when it mattered.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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