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noun as in diligence, hard work

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backbone, constancy, continuance, doggedness, drive, follow through, guts, immovability, indefatigability, pertinacity, pluck, purposefulness, pursuance, resolution, sedulity

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In surveying the damage over several years, Imbolo Mbue crafts an aching narrative about greed, community and perseverance.

The album embodied King’s musical genius, capturing her optimism and perseverance, which enabled her to make it in a man’s world and has given the album great longevity and appeal to fans of all types of music.

Our perseverance lies in recognizing our reliance on the Earth system, not our dominance of it.

The stories from entrepreneurs who have built successful businesses and the never-ending tales of heartache, perseverance, and resilience.

The companies that thrived in 2020 mastered the art of perseverance — and how they did so is instructive.

“This is what you call perseverance, ladies and gentlemen,” Greenfield said.

With a backbone of steel, she matched her husband in intelligence, perseverance, and strength of spirit.

The amount of discipline and perseverance that it takes to train for a fight is incredible.

One thinks of Viktor Frankl here—“What is to give light must endure burning”—and his philosophy of human perseverance.

This ties to me a long history and beautiful culture of accomplishment and perseverance.

She has an obstinacy and a perseverance in sticking at you that drive you almost wild, but make you learn "lots" in the end.

The students of the great Universities of Scotland offer, perhaps, the most striking proofs of perseverance to be found.

Lewis Hayden by perseverance, may yet become a very wealthy man.

There are many Mahomedans among the inhabitants, who surpass the Hindoos in industry and perseverance.

There is great perseverance, aye, moral courage of no mean order, in his survival in the movement.