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2 meanings

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1 —as in:
dogged determination

Definition

continuing effort to achieve something despite difficulties (persistent)

She worked with dogged determination.

dogged = continuing effort to achieve something despite difficulties

Other Uses (with this meaning)

High achieving students often do well in jobs because of their dogged effort.

dogged = continuing effort despite difficulties

She has been a dogged defender of free speech.

dogged = continuing effort to achieve something despite difficulties

"My parents," Johnny repeated doggedly, "did they ask about me?"
S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders

doggedly = with continuing effort despite difficulties

He felt himself slipping into darkness and blinked hard, doggedly clinging to life, willing himself to not let go.
Ben Mikaeslen -- Touching Spirit Bear

doggedly = with determined effort

They had come from the right, and doggedly he swam in that direction,
Richard Connell -- The Most Dangerous Game

doggedly = with continuing effort despite difficulties

The thought of Prim having to watch that keeps me doggedly inching my way toward the hideout.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

doggedly = with continuing effort despite difficulty

They bore on south in the days and weeks to follow. Solitary and dogged.
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road

dogged = continuing despite difficulties

My dogged obsessiveness leads me to ignore all manner of threats, and the risk to the fortune Daisy and I have stumbled into.
John Green -- Turtles All the Way Down

dogged = continuing effort despite difficulties

But Meg, with the dogged tenacity that had so often caused her trouble, continued.
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

dogged = determined and persistent

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2 —as in:
dogged by problems

Definition

followed; or persistently annoyed

The expedition was dogged by one problem after the next.

dogged = persistently annoyed; or followed

Other Uses (with this meaning)

She was dogged by one problem after the next.

dogged = persistently annoyed; or followed

Well, just watch yourself, Potter, because I'll be dogging your footsteps in case you step out of line.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

dogging = following

I won't have her childhood disturbed by photographers dogging her at soccer games or hanging from trees at school picnics.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures

dogging = following; or persistently annoying

I hurried on and he came after, dogging my footsteps in a suspicious silence.
Kamala Markandaya -- Nectar in a Sieve

dogging = following

He sometimes thought that Svidrigailov was dogging his footsteps.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

dogging = following

A stranger then is still dogging us, just as a stranger dogged us in London.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles

dogging = following

He did; and then it seemed to me that he was dogging us, but with what intent I could not for the life of me imagine.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

dogging = following

Peeta and I eat together, and since Haymitch keeps dogging us about it, try to keep up a friendly conversation during the meals.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

dogging = annoying (over and over again)

He was jittery and dogged by airsickness.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

dogged = persistently troubled

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