pertinacious

Example Sentences

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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.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2020

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

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2020

He set himself to the task with pertinacious common sense, worked long hours to bring Roman order out of imperial chaos.

From Time Magazine Archive

Alexander Hamilton warned that if "a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority ... the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of the greater."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin