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Meanings of tenacious in English
Portuguese
tenaz Stubbornly unyielding.
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Examples for "persistent"
Examples for "persistent"
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There are two new categories this year; original property and persistent game.
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The main outcome measure was the number of days with persistent cough.
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However, early reports suggest that the roof collapsed under persistent heavy rains.
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Metal pollution of aquatic habitats is a major and persistent environmental problem.
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However, certain viruses can subvert the immune response to establish persistent infections.
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Second, past reforms reveal the critical role of dogged and personal leadership.
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However, they were left exhausted by the New Zealand team's dogged defence.
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The young tennis player had been dogged by injury in recent years.
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Certainly, though, through his dogged determination, Giuliani has broken new scientific ground.
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However, its conversion to a medical centre has been dogged by controversy.
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The cold affected the going at once; it was slow and unyielding.
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But is our unyielding desire for approval and attention really harming anyone?
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Hans shrunk a bit at Harpal's tone and unyielding choice of words.
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She crossed her arms and made sure to appear stern and unyielding.
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In France, again, the objects of the attack were inelastic and unyielding.
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fans gather to watch 'dour German second division football'.
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The opening quarter-hour was dour with neither side taking a dominant role.
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A dour deduction that Hamish reached, all by himself, just hours ago.
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And you seem... well, somewhat more dour than I've seen you before.
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The clinic was located in a dour Victorian hospital in central London.
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The duke, however, was pertinacious; he could not give up the subject.
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Defeated by the pertinacious insects, he rushed howling away through the forest.
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The pertinacious opposition of these men inflamed to anger Moore and Thomas.
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The greater number were pertinacious thieves, and addicted besides to many vices.
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I was pertinacious, and would accept such favours on no other terms.
Usage of tenacious in English
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S: And most surely he is tenacious in the love of wealth.
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Thereafter he was to trust the silent and tenacious general through everything.
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The Latin race has never been tenacious either in politics or commerce.
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None of the animals of the Phoca genus are tenacious of life.
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The cause of denominationalism is the tenacious clinging to faith and doctrines.
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An enquiring and tenacious mind is, he reckons, essential for the role.
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We were all, including his most tenacious critics, lost in admiring awe.
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To continue, people of unsound mind are remarkably tenacious of their ideas.
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The habit of self-deceit is as insidious and tenacious as any vice.
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Both Ludlam and Waters were highly regarded, tenacious champions of their portfolios.
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The Umbrian mountaineers are spleenful, tenacious of a grudge and ferociously acrimonious.
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All this enabled the tenacious Alfred to carry out a deeply-cherished design.
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To their despondent-looking trousers the blue tenacious prairie mud clung like glue.
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The wolf was a tenacious fellow, and he struggled desperately to rise.
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Still, form is a delusion of tenacious hold upon the human mind.
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He has had enough to cure the most tenacious man of life.
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