studious
Example Sentences
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"Most Chinese people are quite studious and forward-looking, so when confronted with new things, they might have stronger feelings" of so-called FOMO, he said.
From Barron's
As a girl, Petrou was studious and strong-willed; in a 2018 profile in The Wall Street Journal, her mother recalled Petrou getting into a heated “intellectual disputation” with their rabbi at Sunday school.
“You have to be incredibly studious and disciplined, and then you have to be have the ability to be emotionally free and responding in the moment to what’s going on.”
From Los Angeles Times
Gauci suggests the "quite remarkable" notebook suggests Geisel had been "studious" and was doing "diligent work".
From BBC
If it was, it was not because I was particularly studious.
From Literature
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