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That kind of tenaciousness seems to be a signature trait for the performer whose birth name is Danupha Khanatheerakul.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025

“His energy and his tenaciousness was really the difference.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2023

You sense Lucia’s tenaciousness coursing through Ms. Yende’s performance of the mad scene on her latest Sony recording, “Dreams”; even in the character’s delirium there is a chilling directness, even defiance, to her singing.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2018

And it helps illuminate the love and energy and sheer tenaciousness that he’s invested with Kaleb in building a home for their children.

From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2017

The tenaciousness of flowers is not known; their hardihood is not sufficiently admired.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829 by Various