single-minded
Example Sentences
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It’s a one-track, single-minded way of thinking, eerily reminiscent of, oh, I don’t know, a hungry coyote blindly pursuing a roadrunner.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Johnson, who sold his company Braintree to PayPal in 2013 for $800 million, has spent the last five years on a single-minded quest to reverse his biological age to 18.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
So turn the phrase "who else?" back towards Bellingham - the "who else?" in his England world became boyhood friend Rogers and a single-minded head coach without a care for reputations and status.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Mr. Mauch’s prose is not flowery, but direct, single-minded and determined, like the man himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
“A bit single-minded, though. He only goes in straight lines. That’s bound to get dull, boring, tedious, and uninteresting after a bit.”
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
