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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When he sits again, he assiduously avoids eye contact.
From Literature
Starmer, who for a year has assiduously courted the president and held off publicly rebuking him, has now changed course.
His stark black-and-white imagery in assiduously long takes with creeping camera movements — hallmarks of his filmmaking — demanded that the viewer pause to look, to see, as one might in regarding a Picasso or a Bruegel.
From Los Angeles Times
Dismissed by colleagues as a “clerical rat,” he assiduously studied the files whose handling was now his responsibility.
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.
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