dogged

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

She has been a dogged defender of free speech.

With the obsessive attention to detail that characterized his brand of dogged genius, Rosellini purged his life of all but the most primitive tools, which he fashioned from native materials with his own hands.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Her face was burning and there was a dogged ache in her arms and legs—a numbness that was simultaneously painful and exhausting.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

"My parents," Johnny repeated doggedly, "did they ask about me?"  (source) S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, 1967

Or imagine a country where Renee's doggedness is not the exception, but a cultural trait, embedded as deeply as the culture of honor in the Cumberland Plateau.†  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, 2008

I did not become dogged or declarative, nor did I walk off into the sunset—in fact, for a while there, I saw hardly any natural light at all.  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

The thought of Prim having to watch that keeps me doggedly inching my way toward the hideout.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

Yet now that Meena had news about Naina, her doggedness came to the surface again: She was determined to recover her daughter.†  (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009

But Meg, with the dogged tenacity that had so often caused her trouble, continued.  (source) Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, 1962

He felt himself slipping into darkness and blinked hard, doggedly clinging to life, willing himself to not let go.  (source) Ben Mikaeslen, Touching Spirit Bear, 2001

That's my brand of doggedness.†  (source) Marcus Luttrell, Lone Survivor, 2007

Smugness faded from it, replaced by a dogged earnestness that fooled Judge Taylor not at all: as long as Mr. Ewell was on the stand, the judge kept his eyes on him, as if daring him to make a false move.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

She was dogged by one problem after the next.

He was jittery and dogged by airsickness.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

Peeta and I eat together, and since Haymitch keeps dogging us about it, try to keep up a friendly conversation during the meals.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

Well, just watch yourself, Potter, because I'll be dogging your footsteps in case you step out of line.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

They came when misfortune dogged their steps or when they had a dispute with their neighbours.  (source) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 1958

I won't have her childhood disturbed by photographers dogging her at soccer games or hanging from trees at school picnics.  (source) Nora Roberts, Summer Pleasures, 2002

And the prince dogged him every step of the way.  (source) Sid Fleischman, The Whipping Boy, 1986

I hurried on and he came after, dogging my footsteps in a suspicious silence.  (source) Kamala Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve, 1954

Dr. Alfred Weinstein, who had infected the Bird with dysentery at Mitsushima, was dogged by urges to scavenge in garbage cans.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

A stranger then is still dogging us, just as a stranger dogged us in London.  (source) Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902

He sometimes thought that Svidrigailov was dogging his footsteps.  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, 1866

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.  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

You guys on JV —if you play well and some varsity player is dogging it, I'll bring you up in a heartbeat.†  (source) Carl Deuker, Gym Candy, 2007