single-minded

Example Sentences

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"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

Mr. Mauch’s prose is not flowery, but direct, single-minded and determined, like the man himself.

From The Wall Street Journal

The revolutionary pharoah builds a great city and reduces spiritual chaos by focusing on a single-minded form of worship.

From Los Angeles Times

Together we looked down at the last few bullet points on the list, a list that I’d disregarded in my single-minded focus to level up.

From Literature

Theodosius was the Christian Roman emperor who embraced the Nicene Creed as the religion of empire in the late fourth century, conducting a single-minded suppression of paganism in the lands over which he ruled.

From The Wall Street Journal