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relentlessness

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Brunson’s not brash or noisy in the way the city is—he’s quite the opposite, humble and quiet—but there’s a relentlessness to him, almost a fever.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

The melon’s bitterness, the plant’s resilience, mix with the sun’s relentlessness.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

“What I recognized in Hamilton … was his relentlessness. I recognize that relentlessness in … so many immigrant stories I know,” he told an interviewer in 2016.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025

Taylor ferrets out the secret with her bloodthirsty relentlessness and immediately raises pandemonium.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

On one occasion, after watching the Washington freshmen practice, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Royal Brougham marveled at the relentlessness of the sport: “Nobody ever took time out in a boat race,” he noted.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown