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Meanings of tenacious in English

Portuguese
tenaz

Good at remembering.

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tenaz

Stubbornly unyielding.

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Sticking together.

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Examples for "coherent"
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Madam, - Does the Government have any coherent vision for Irish society?
The Irish Times
2
OPINION: FINALLY, THE outlines of a coherent debate on the federal bailout.
The Irish Times
3
Under the circumstances a coherent plan of campaign was not easily achieved.
The guns of august
4
However, he is struggling to come up with a coherent economic policy.
Reuters
5
I had to concentrate hard to both breathe and ask coherent questions.
Dead ever after
Usage of tenacious in English
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S: And most surely he is tenacious in the love of wealth.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
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Thereafter he was to trust the silent and tenacious general through everything.
The Rock of Chickamauga: A Story of the Western Crisis
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The Latin race has never been tenacious either in politics or commerce.
Modern India
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None of the animals of the Phoca genus are tenacious of life.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 26, September 24, 1870
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The cause of denominationalism is the tenacious clinging to faith and doctrines.
The Heart-Cry of Jesus
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An enquiring and tenacious mind is, he reckons, essential for the role.
The Guardian
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We were all, including his most tenacious critics, lost in admiring awe.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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To continue, people of unsound mind are remarkably tenacious of their ideas.
The Great Impersonation
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The habit of self-deceit is as insidious and tenacious as any vice.
The Masquerader
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Both Ludlam and Waters were highly regarded, tenacious champions of their portfolios.
The Guardian
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The Umbrian mountaineers are spleenful, tenacious of a grudge and ferociously acrimonious.
Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of ...
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All this enabled the tenacious Alfred to carry out a deeply-cherished design.
Hard Cash
13
To their despondent-looking trousers the blue tenacious prairie mud clung like glue.
A Lover in Homespun / And Other Stories
14
The wolf was a tenacious fellow, and he struggled desperately to rise.
The Camp in the Snow; Or, Besieged by Danger
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Still, form is a delusion of tenacious hold upon the human mind.
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel
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He has had enough to cure the most tenacious man of life.
New Arabian Nights
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Translations for tenacious
Portuguese
tenaz
Tenacious through the time
Tenacious across language varieties
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