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diligent
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diligent as in:  she is diligent

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  • The job requires more diligence than raw talent.
    diligence = care and hard work
  • She was diligent in her training, running five miles every morning to prepare for the marathon.
    diligent = careful and hardworking
  • The performance review described her as punctual, enthusiastic, and diligent.
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  • This state of affairs rewarded people's diligence, imagination, and ingenuity.  (source)
    diligence = hard work and care in tasks
  • They kept their eyes diligently lowered as I went.  (source)
    diligently = carefully
  • who was clever, who was diligent, who was loyal.  (source)
    diligent = a hard and careful worker
  • Chacko studied his treatise on "The Peaceful Transition to Communism" with an adolescent's obsessive diligence and an ardent fan's unquestioning approval.  (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • She diligently listened to the radio from the time she was old enough to turn it on and mimicked what she heard.  (source)
    diligently = with care and consistency
  • They are diligent when their efforts are rewarded.  (source)
    diligent = hardworking, careful, and persistent
  • Ellaha found work with an American construction company and quickly impressed the managers with her intelligence and diligence.  (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
  • Harry was diligently avoiding contact with any of them;  (source)
    diligently = carefully and persistently
  • Whether it was a matter of law or presentation, he was diligent in his study, and it had won him a few cases early in his career when he should have lost.  (source)
    diligent = worked hard and carefully
  • Nathaniel sweeps the sidewalk with maniacal diligence, flicking dead cockroaches and cigarette butts into the gutter to clear a space for his bedding.  (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
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  • The diligence stopped at the "Croix-Rouge" in the Place Beauvoisine.  (source)
    diligence = stagecoach
  • As it drew nearer I observed that it was the Swiss diligence; it stopped just where I was standing, and on the door being opened, I perceived Henry Clerval, who, on seeing me, instantly sprung out.  (source)
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