single-minded
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Pochettino, however, is also single-minded and ruthless, as he proved with an emphatic response to criticism for not phoning the players he left out of the USA World Cup squad.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
It will prove an enticement for viewers, too, to see whether some woman is feral enough to have committed Helen’s murder, or the culprit was some single-minded man who outwitted the system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 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 of Hideo’s intense gaze, his single-minded genius.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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