assiduously
Americanadverb
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with careful and consistent effort; diligently or tirelessly.
The Department of Health is still working assiduously with the schools to prevent further spread of the disease.
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constantly; ceaselessly.
He referred to the boys assiduously as “gentlemen.”
Other Word Forms
- unassiduously adverb
Etymology
Origin of assiduously
Example Sentences
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The video was the latest in many reports published by Navalnaya in the months after her husband’s death, which she promised to assiduously investigate as part of an effort to prove Kremlin complicity.
The comments prompted an outraged Gisèle to exit the courtroom mid-session for only the second time in the trial, which she otherwise followed assiduously – as she is expected to do again next week.
From BBC
In other words, you assiduously learn the lessons of the last crisis and then the next one, which is totally different, floors you all over again.
From BBC
The problem is akin to that of an actor who works so assiduously on his own that by the time rehearsals arrive he only wants to perfect what he’s worked out on his own.
From Los Angeles Times
In Washington, President Clinton and his techie vice president, Al Gore, broke ground by assiduously courting the industry, eager to associate themselves with its perceived coolness and cutting-edge cachet.
From Los Angeles Times
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