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Glass, by Ellen Hopkins
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- Slice-and-bake dough, a brand-new oven, and spotless Teflon cookie sheets, and no matter how hard I tried, how diligently I watched them, I burned every single batch.
*diligently = with hard work and care
- Seems to me anyone searching that diligently would have found one by now.†
Definitions:
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(diligent as in: she is diligent) working carefully and steadily with effort and attention to detail
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More specifically in law, diligence or due diligence refers to the care or attention expected by the law in doing something such as fulfilling the terms of a contract.
More rarely, but sometimes seen in classic literature, a diligence is a public stagecoach.