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synonyms for relentlessness

  • bullheadedness
  • contumacy
  • doggedness
  • grimness
  • indomitability
  • inexorability
  • inexorableness
  • inflexibility
  • inflexibleness
  • intransigence
  • intransigency
  • mulishness
  • obduracy
  • obstinacy
  • perseverance
  • pertinacity
  • pigheadedness
  • rigidity
  • rigidness
  • adamancy
  • die-hardism
  • implacability
  • implacableness
  • incompliance
  • incompliancy
  • obdurateness
  • remorselessness
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How to use relentlessness in a sentence

An early test of this approach occurred in 1999, when relentless erosion of the North Carolina shoreline forced the National Park Service to move the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and Keeper’s Quarters about a half-mile inland.
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As a player and a coach, he advocated the same relentless style of play he learned from Auerbach.
TOM HEINSOHN, MAINSTAY OF BOSTON CELTICS DYNASTY AS PLAYER, COACH, DIES AT 86MATT SCHUDELNOVEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON POST
His relentless hustling led him to a job as a staff songwriter with a Nashville publishing company.
BILLY JOE SHAVER, SINGER-SONGWRITER WHO INSPIRED OUTLAW COUNTRY, DIES AT 81TERENCE MCARDLEOCTOBER 29, 2020WASHINGTON POST
I can be noisy and I can be relentless, but I don’t always convince my colleagues.
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Engineers, facing relentless deadlines, rarely spend meaningful time with people on the sharp end of their code.
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Uncouth and buffeted as his withered figure may have been, it still represented the relentlessness of the Law.
THE SHADOWARTHUR STRINGER
Outside the snow was still falling with quiet relentlessness.
DESTINYCHARLES NEVILLE BUCK
Roman relentlessness was roused to its fullest rage, and accomplished against them the destruction of prophecy.
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It irritated him to fall from his usual relentlessness of common sense into a melting mood.
THE HISTORY OF SIR RICHARD CALMADYLUCAS MALET
It gave me an impression of immovability, of patient and methodical relentlessness that was disheartening.
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