single-minded
Example Sentences
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What it needs more than anything is a single-minded focus on getting kids ready for school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Creator Vince Gilligan’s Emmy-nominated postapocalyptic sci-fi series “Pluribus” focuses on a dozen or so people who somehow held onto their autonomy and did not join the rest of humanity as a collective, single-minded pod.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
A former star student and long-distance runner from a prominent family in Amarillo, Texas, Griffin goes into her first session with a competitor’s single-minded determination to, as she writes, “get to the finish line.”
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
"I think Ant has done that well and he's single-minded enough to blank out a lot of the noise. It's one of his strengths."
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
His job became a single-minded crusade against the Household Finance Corporation.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
