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Tenacious: meaning and example

adjective · In the sense illustrated below

Determined to continue despite difficulty.

Example sentence

“The tenacious researcher kept checking until she found the original record.”

An illustrative sentence written for Ikigain.

Putting it into words

In a compliment

“Your tenacious work finding the missing information made this possible.”

This example illustrates a positive sense or context. The same word can have other meanings; choose it for what you actually want to say.

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