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pertinacious

adjective as in resolute

adjective as in obstinate

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It proved to be an extreme endurance test, and so it figures that James, the pertinacious King of the league, would carry the Los Angeles Lakers past all of the obstacles.

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Despite this, the pertinacious ranger does possess the precious commodity of self-knowledge.

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They are anything but a phlegmatic people, yet they are obdurate, they are pertinacious, they finish plastering joints.

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Second, we are an ingenious, resourceful and pertinacious species.

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The pertinacious meme that we would somehow benefit from eating more saturated fat, and thus its principal sources – meat, butter, cheese – is a product of misinterpretations of sequential answers to a series of dubious questions.

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