industriousness

noun

Definition of industriousnessnext
as in diligence
attentive and persistent effort she did twice as much work as anyone else through sheer industriousness

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  1. diligence
  2. persistence
  3. industry
  4. assiduity
  5. effort
Noun
  • Dafoe is also an actor’s actor, respected for the mix of diligence and curiosity that drives his career choices.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
  • There are some people for whom delaying urinating can be more dangerous than usual, necessitating more diligence.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of diligence
Noun
  • All this leads to the persistence of small pockets of jihadist sympathizers in the West, whether lone wolves or small clusters, who consume (and produce) ISIS propaganda and at times activate themselves to carry out attacks.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
  • But the circulation of artworks to places far removed from their origins, and their persistence beyond the time of their creation, demands that they be seen not only as historical documents but as explorations of pictorial possibility.
    Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of persistence
Noun
  • Biden, 82, pushed through major pieces of legislation to unleash historic infrastructure spending, a resurgence of clean-energy factories and investments in the microchip industry to catch up to China, while also renewing ties with the country's international allies.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
  • However, policies such as import tariffs and mass deportation could negatively impact housing prices, as these factors directly affect labor and material costs—two major inputs in the housing industry.
    Robert Thorpe, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of industry
Noun
  • 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.
    Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Lee is hardly the first biographer to be wooed by the allure of her subject; to risk being squashed by the weight of her research; or to concede that, despite her assiduity, much will elude her grasp.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
Definition of assiduity
Noun
  • Los Angeles Chief Kristin Crowley on Friday blasted the city over a recent budget cut that has hampered the department’s ongoing firefighting efforts.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The changes are just the latest effort by Meta given that Trump and his allies have targeted the platform and Zuckerberg himself.
    Caroline Frost, Deadline, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of effort
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