fortitude
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According to John Evans III, “keeping the business alive takes fortitude and hard work, but it’s a responsibility someone has to take on.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
Surrey, having copped the worst of the conditions early in the match, showed the fortitude and skill not to lose it.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
But it certainly makes him look cowardly that he can’t even muster the fortitude to say it in public, much less to his boss’s face.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026
As an immigrant directly from Korea, Chang showed him the fortitude of structure amid her community.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
Like so many cold, weak people, when faced at last by the incontrovertible disaster she exhumed from somewhere a sort of fortitude, strength.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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