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as in: dogged determination Define
continuing effort to achieve something despite difficulties (persistent)
- (With hanging head he marches doggedly forward.
- She worked with dogged determination.
- High achieving students often succeed because of their dogged effort.
- (Calling encouraging words he shambles back with a furtive poacher’s tread, dogged by the setter into a dark stalestunk corner.
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as in: dogged determination Define
continuing effort to achieve something despite difficulties (persistent)
as in: dogged by problems
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followed; or persistently annoyed
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