as in engaged
involved in often constant activity
a student who has been unceasingly diligent in pursuit of a degree in mathematics
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Recent Examples of diligent
Oh-so rigid and diligent, Preston would make sure to be well-versed in literary history.
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Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 7 Dec. 2025
My memories of Sean growing up are one of a respectful and a diligent child and teenager.
—Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2025
After diligent repairs, the grand reopening of Heart's Desire Antiques is set for this weekend.
—Suzanne Le Mignot, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
These may not be dealbreakers for shoppers who are diligent about paying down their cards.
—Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2025
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Those late audits have caused ongoing comments by engaged residents who are perplexed that year after year the town’s government is not able to provide the same audit the state’s other 168 municipalities complete and submit to the public and the state’s budget office.—
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Guiliani said her students have been more engaged and focused.—
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Visiting the restaurant has become an expression of the purest form of Panthers fandom — and that’s helped make this week quite busy ahead of the Panthers’ first home playoff game in 10 years.—
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Those who remain are concentrated in Venezuela’s cities, including its capital, Caracas, where the street market in the Catia neighborhood once was so busy that shoppers bumped into one another and dodged oncoming traffic.—
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Displacing the ’90s boom bap and aughts brawlers of her last album is a streak of assiduous ’80s R&B exercises that foreground her gains as a vocalist more often than her gobstopping wordplay as a rapper.—
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Smith, a former C.E.O. of Madison Square Garden, was an assiduous, somewhat robotic character, who had been appointed four and a half years earlier to modernize the auction house, which was the oldest company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.—
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Highly active world Enceladus is a highly active world, with a global, salty sub-surface ocean, believed to be the source of its heat.—
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During inquiries, the ICO found 178 active email accounts using passwords identical or similar to those set by the organization’s IT desk when the account was activated.—
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“Diligent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diligent. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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