as in effort
attentive and persistent effort
through the diligence and ingenuity of a single detective, the gang's ringleader was finally caught
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Recent Examples of diligence
And from an intangible standpoint, the team loves his diligence and conscientiousness.
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Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 12 Dec. 2025
Plan for more diligence, more follow-up.
—Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 9 Dec. 2025
While strategizing or discussing diligence on Zoom, participants would raise virtual hands or make suggestions over chat rather than unmuting and slowing down the meeting.
—Michelle F. Davis, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2025
The original Concord Police Department investigators showed extraordinary diligence, only to be thwarted by flawed forensic technology of the era.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diligence
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Her defensive effort led to a transition 3-pointer for Maddie Scherr that electrified the home crowd for TCU.—
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There is currently no information about the containment efforts for the fire and its cause has yet to be determined.—
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While the Queen Mother was very fond of this Queen Victoria tiara and wore it with relative assiduity, her daughter only wore it once in public, on an official trip to Malta in November 2005.—
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These indestructible treasures have always been buried in matter, awaiting the invention of scanning electron microscopes and scientists with enough assiduity to spend decades on end peering into their atomic eyes.—
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The distorting design of the Senate and the Electoral College, the filibuster’s persistence, and centralized leadership have all contributed to legislative ossification.—
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Twenty years of hard work and persistence, blessed by occasional moments when chance had generously smiled on him.—
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In addition to its military value, Greenland has uranium, iron, and rare earth minerals, a group of 17 metals valued for their use in advanced industries from smartphones to MRI machines to weapons systems.—
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Gilbert had two decades of experience in the television industry under his belt before pursuing the idea of following an American family through a period in their lives amid a palpable societal and generational shift across the country.—
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This culture emphasizes individual responsibility, industriousness, respect for the rule of law, the dignity of conscience, and the limits of liberty rightly understood.—
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Good care requires a level of presence and attentiveness that just can’t be scaled.—
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The company is aiming squarely at a traveler who wants the convenience of commercial routes but the comfort and attentiveness that usually come with chartering a jet.—
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Microsoft is paying close to attention to the impact of its data centers on local residents.—
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Play close attention to those quotation marks.—
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“Diligence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diligence. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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