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The scientist conducted a rigorous study to ensure the results were reliable.

He said I'd been educated according to a rigorous program designed by my mother, who'd made sure I met all the requirements to graduate.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

The dedicated girls were shut up inside the temple compound, fed the best of everything to keep them sleek and healthy, and rigorously trained so they would be ready for the great day — able to fulfill their duties with decorum, and without quailing.  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

Everything speaks of a hasty departure or a rigorous search or both.  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

And it forced us to develop the logic and rigor that would lead to systematic investigations of reality, to science, art, music, mathematics.  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

By itself, the regimen proposed here, when followed rigorously, can purify the foulest breath.  (source) Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate, 1992

Yet I could easily recognise this class of transgressions by the anguish of mind which preceded, as well as by the rigour of the punishment which followed them; and I knew that what I had just done was in the same category as certain other sins for which I had been severely chastised, though infinitely more serious than they.†  (source) Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, 1913

The speaker looked round upon the bystanders, now drawing closer to hear him, with his lips gathered tighter than ever in the rigorousness of his descriptive moderation.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, 1878

There, a worker cut a strip off the edge, divided it into squares, and put each through a series of rigorous tests.  (source) Andy Weir, The Martian, 2011

The hot sun dried Sethe's dress, stiff, like rigor morris.†  (source) Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987

For although I have spent ample hours of my adult life rigorously assessing and figuring all sorts of human calculations, the flesh math, as we say, I retain an amazing facility for discharging to hope and dumb chance the things most precious to me.  (source) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

Miss Horrocks was installed as housekeeper at Queen's Crawley, and ruled all the domestics there with great majesty and rigour.†  (source) William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1848

a methodology that was logical and systematic and rational and rigorous  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, 2005

Navy SEALs go through an incredibly rigorous qualification and training program.

He measured himself and those around him by an impossibly rigorous moral code.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Only one of us here today has ever undergone the rigorous training required of a Receiver.  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

I was undoubtedly on an upward trajectory, but even toward the end of high school, C's in easy classes revealed a kid unprepared for the rigors of advanced education.  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

The rest of the class was very eager to leave; Moody had given them such a rigorous test of hex-deflection that many of them were nursing small injuries.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be.  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

The county judges, none of whom believes this school capable of turning out anything but football players, will question you rigorously on your project.  (source) Homer Hickam, October Sky, 1998

where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

After the rigors of last night a bit of sleep might have been in order.  (source) Kenneth Oppel, Airborn, 2004

Usually students had difficulty adjusting to the rigorous classes, especially if they had not attended University the first two years, but Rameck slid in easily and made good grades from the beginning.  (source) Sampon Davis, et. al., We Beat the Street, 2005

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: (1:13)  (source) The Bible, Exodus, 1611

He read rigorously for several days, caught a few small errors, and penciled in supporting facts, especially about his evolved musical tastes.  (source) Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen, 1998

To hear him tell it, they were marble-lined palaces, an escape from the rigors of the newsroom.  (source) Rick Bragg, All Over but the Shoutin', 1997

The teacher’s rigorous enforcement of classroom rules ensured a disciplined learning environment.

Then I tried to preserve myself from the horror that was coming upon me, by regarding it as a rigorous punishment of human selfishness.†  (source) Wells, H.G., The Time Machine

In college McCandless began emulating Tolstoy's asceticism and moral rigor to a degree that first astonished, and then alarmed, those who were close to him.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

The evidence shows that he had been exceptionally dedicated, and it is precisely that rigorous and unbending attitude of spirit—the concept of duty and obedience above all which dwells unshakably in the mind of every good soldier—that gives his memoirs a desolating convincingness.  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

His stern measures as Director were given an odd legitimacy by his personal life, the rigor of his insistent celibacy.  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

She knew not how such an offence as hers might be classed by the laws of worldly politeness, to what a degree of unforgivingness it might with propriety lead, nor to what rigours of rudeness in return it might justly make her amenable.†  (source) Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1799

For a very long period before the time of Our Ford, and even for some generations afterwards, erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal (there was a roar of laughter); and not only abnormal, actually immoral (no!): and had therefore been rigorously suppressed.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

the rigour of severest law  (source) William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1599

Indeed, at least two of the commercial expeditions on Everest in the spring of 1996 included Himalayan veterans who would be considered qualified by the most rigorous standards.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

"Well," I said with as little expression as I could, "at least you have been spared the rigours of an amputation."†  (source) Esi Edugyan, Washington Black, 2018

Among other things, he was rigorously conventional and had quickly accommodated himself to McGraw-Hill's tidy, colorless and archconservative mold.  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods,  (source) William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, 1594