as in resolute
fully committed to achieving a goal
a do-or-die entrepreneur who never stopped believing that hard work would inevitably lead to success
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What actually goes through one’s mind in those do-or-die moments where the difference between eternal glory and lifelong disappointment is one tiny miscalculation or half-second’s hesitation?
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Andrew Barker, Variety, 19 June 2024
Edwards was moving instead of being set, but the infraction appeared to have no real effect on the play, nothing blatant, and this time the chance for one of the game’s great players to take a do-or-die shot was taken away.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2024
Nikki Haley was scrambling Monday to close a wide gap with former President Donald Trump on the eve of Tuesday’s do-or-die New Hampshire Republican primary.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2024
And after losing Sunday night at Ball Arena, the Nuggets are now even in those do-or-die games: 4-4 as a franchise and 3-2 with Jokic and Jamal.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 19 May 2024
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Andrew Barker, Variety, 19 June 2024
Edwards was moving instead of being set, but the infraction appeared to have no real effect on the play, nothing blatant, and this time the chance for one of the game’s great players to take a do-or-die shot was taken away.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2024
Nikki Haley was scrambling Monday to close a wide gap with former President Donald Trump on the eve of Tuesday’s do-or-die New Hampshire Republican primary.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2024
And after losing Sunday night at Ball Arena, the Nuggets are now even in those do-or-die games: 4-4 as a franchise and 3-2 with Jokic and Jamal.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 19 May 2024
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