as in diligent
involved in often constant activity
an industrious worker who never seems to sleep
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Recent Examples of industrious
Despite the wild image at the turn of the 19th century, the town was also known for its industrious citizens who worked at its furniture factory, paper mills, flour mills and more.
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Kalpana Mohan, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
Winger Bertrand Traore did his fair share of defensive work, shutting down space in the right channel, and Trai Hume was industrious in pushing up to aid attacks and recovering to avoid being exploited on the counter.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
Driving through lush, evergreen rainforest, far past the industrious city of Seattle, a rolling mist creeps in.
—Christina Fang, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2025
Leckie says ants are industrious and dynamic builders.
—NPR, 21 Oct. 2025
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But such diligent injury prevention doesn’t address the root cause of Rec League Dysmorphia.—
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Iran thus has every right to demand that the IAEA be diligent in observing its own procedures and codes of conduct on impartiality, objectivity, confidentiality, and sensitivity to national security concerns in exchange for continued cooperation.—
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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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“Industrious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/industrious. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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