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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
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    She was diligent in her training, running five miles every morning to prepare for the marathon.
    diligent = careful and hardworking
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    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
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    All of us were giving diligent attention to our powdered potatoes.  (source)
    diligent = careful and thorough
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    Harry was diligently avoiding contact with any of them;  (source)
    diligently = carefully and persistently
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    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
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    who was clever, who was diligent, who was loyal.  (source)
    diligent = a hard and careful worker
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    I'm currently going through a dance and ballet craze and am diligently practicing my dance steps every evening.  (source)
    diligently = carefully and persistently
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    Under the guidance of my new preceptors I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life; but the latter soon obtained my undivided attention.  (source)
    diligence = hard work and care
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    I didn't want her turned, against both her will and nature, into one of those diligent, sad women who are bent on a lifelong course of quiet servitude, forever in fear of showing, saying, or doing the wrong thing.  (source)
    diligent = hardworking and careful
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    Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court's decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, ...  (source)
    diligently = with hard work and care
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    ...they shadowed him with the same watchful diligence as Hannah's goslings.  (source)
    diligence = care and hard work
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    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)
    diligence = stagecoach
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    The diligence stopped at the "Croix-Rouge" in the Place Beauvoisine.  (source)
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