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She is but the latest in a string of artists and designers Mr. Sargent sedulously promotes on @sirsargent, his Instagram, with close to 100,000 followers.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2022

Caltech’s announcement made a passing reference to Wonderful Co., but sedulously avoided communicating any details of what the company actually does.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2019

Ellmann was sedulously, reductively, droningly biographical in his approach to Yeats.

From Slate • Dec. 27, 2012

A novel such as The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven seemed to me, to use Walter Scott's wonderful phrase about the novels of Tobias Smollett, "sedulously laboured into excellence".

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2012

But I see now how sedulously she labored to create her illusion; for she knew it should protect me only so long as I believed it.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson