stick-to-it-iveness
or stick-to-it·ive·ness
determination and persistence, especially in spite of difficulties; perseverance: Call it stubbornness or stick-to-it-iveness, but she eventually won support for the proposal.
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How to use stick-to-it-iveness in a sentence
But some, the ones with real stick-to-it-iveness, join a gym and start a program like CrossFit.
Cool It on the CrossFit: What’s Rhabdomyolysis? | Kent Sepkowitz | October 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTNo estimate of Mr. Klein could be called complete which did not take account of his grit and stick-to-it-iveness.
The Footlights Fore and Aft | Channing PollockSo it has been done, and can be done in your case; but it all depends upon you, your zeal and your stick-to-it-iveness.
The Art of Stage Dancing | Ned WayburnThe "stick-to-it-iveness" of the Anglo-Saxon is largely wanting.
The Gist of Japan | R. B. PeeryThe light prairie soil, when thoroughly saturated, is capable of very great volatility and yet of stick-to-it-iveness.
Thirty Years in the Itinerancy | Wesson Gage Miller
"Oh, a kind of bulldog stick-to-it-iveness," murmured Stover.
Frank Merriwell at Yale | Burt L. Standish
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