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tenacious

[ tuh-ney-shuhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of ):
a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
highly retentive:
a tenacious memory.
persistent, stubborn, or obstinate.
Synonyms: persistent, pertinacious, dogged, obstinate
adhesive or sticky; viscous or glutinous.
Synonyms: clingy
holding together; cohesive; not easily pulled asunder; tough.

tenacious

/ tɪˈneɪʃəs; tɪˈnæsɪtɪ /

First recorded in 1600–10; tenaci(ty) + -ous

C16: from Latin tenāx, from tenēre to hold

For half a century, Ferencz, a tenacious 95-year-old, has been on his own Lemkin-esque campaign.

But tenacious Albanian partisans kept reinserting the claim.

Ware, a tenacious pass-rusher, is a 7-time Pro Bowler and the Cowboys all-time leader in sacks, with 117 in nine seasons.

Attention all you Darwinists still battling the tenacious Creationists (and losing miserably)!

“The only way to get justice is to patient and persistent and tenacious,” Browder says.

And an educational movement is more tenacious than any other sort of social or political movement whatever.

The planters select a deep black loam or tenacious clay, or even loams mixed with sand.

He was crotchetty and impracticable, a man of rash judgment and hasty action-as brave and as tenacious as a bulldog.

He realized how strong must be the sense of comradeship in Mr. Cornelius to break through his habits of tenacious secrecy.

But Jack was only second to Nero in monkey tricks, and he held on in a most tenacious manner.

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