staying power
ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
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How to use staying power in a sentence
Three years after stunning college basketball, Loyola appears to have some staying power.
Remember Loyola? This Team Is Even Better Than The One That Made The Final Four. | Jake Lourim | February 10, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightThe myth has found staying power in messaging from groups sponsored by bottled-water companies, such as Hydration for Health and Nestlé Waters, which backed studies aiming to show that people were not hydrating enough.
Biteable raises a $7M Series A for its template-based online video builder — The product is designed for creating video assets that have more staying power than temporary social videos.
Coach Matt Campbell has created at least a glimmer of staying power in Ames, a noteworthy accomplishment at a school that had back-to-back winning seasons just twice in the 37 years before Campbell took over in 2016.
College football winners and losers: Pac-12 playoff hopes disappear with Oregon’s loss | Patrick Stevens | November 29, 2020 | Washington PostThe question really comes down to which trends have staying power.
But the idea that the United States must maintain its hegemonic status in a unipolar world—on the right, that has staying power.
His staying power is a testament to the poptimist adage that if someone likes something, it must have some merit.
Thanks in large part to his skill and imagination, Potter has had much more staying power than his peers.
Nor is it clear that the Assad regime is in a position to be confident of its staying power.
As the park protest grew, regular Turks like the schoolteacher filled out its ranks, giving the movement rare staying power.
As Police Cede Taksim Square, Istanbul Remains On Edge | Mike Giglio | June 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI suppose there never has been a war in which one has required such staying power, excepting perhaps the Crimean expedition.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton LaurieHe was not the sort of man to die from want of staying power, which, after all, is the cause of more deaths than we dream of.
With Edged Tools | Henry Seton Merriman"But you must concoct something with more staying power," he went on.
The Opened Shutters | Clara Louise BurnhamHe'd bought her and she'd developed a spirit like wet cotton wool, no pace, no staying power.
The Dark Tower | Phyllis BottomeHe certainly never could grow tired of her, and her looks were of the sort that had staying power.
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig | David Graham Phillips
British Dictionary definitions for staying power
endurance; stamina
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Other Idioms and Phrases with staying power
The ability to endure or last, as in I'm not sure that this young novelist will have staying power, or Our candidate definitely has staying power. This expression comes from racing, where it means “the strength to maintain speed through a race.” [Second half of 1800s]
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