as in resolute
fully committed to achieving a goal
every successful reform movement has been spearheaded by a single-minded activist who refused to accept defeat
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Recent Examples of single-minded
As a result, Google’s single-minded suggestions to minimize intersection stops were often moot.
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Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2024
The results surprised even Lavallee: The most single-minded players performed less well over the three-year course of the study than the players with outside interests.
—Talia Barrington, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2024
The single-minded advocacy for crypto really comes only from a handful of financial types deeply invested in crypto for their own purposes.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
May has been single-minded about proving his theories.
—Alden Wicker, WIRED, 9 July 2024
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Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2024
The results surprised even Lavallee: The most single-minded players performed less well over the three-year course of the study than the players with outside interests.
—Talia Barrington, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2024
The single-minded advocacy for crypto really comes only from a handful of financial types deeply invested in crypto for their own purposes.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
May has been single-minded about proving his theories.
—Alden Wicker, WIRED, 9 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for single-minded
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Company leaders nominally accepted the resolute reformulation, but still accepted their nation’s long-standing conventions.Michael Useem, Fortune Asia, 24 Oct. 2024
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Meanwhile, in the work of the list’s four Arizona firms, the state’s sublime tradition of Desert Modernism, solidified most notably throughout Phoenix in the 1950s in the single-family work of Alfred Beadle, continues statewide with resolute spiritedness.Richard Olsen, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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And Powell made clear that the Fed is determined to maintain its statutory independence from Congress and the Presidency.Peter Green, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2024
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Appointment or not, all were determined to make it to the border and eventually Southern California.Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Back home on Wall Street, meanwhile, Lutnick seems intent on reviving the moribund SPAC market.Dan Primack, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
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President of baseball operations Craig Breslow seems intent on upgrading his starting rotation, based on recent comments to The Athletic.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Single-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/single-minded. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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