Assiduous

Fine, click on the Google "News" tab – and you will be directed to a page of links where the word assiduous appears in news stories. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Andy Anson, 2018's chief executive, is described as assiduous about keeping the board informed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Meanwhile the hottest debate in the local party is about the use of the word "assiduous" on our election leaflets. ❋ Unknown (2004)

a certain number of persons who are called assiduous, exact, fulfilling their strict duty most rigorously, or, what comes to the same thing, for ever in their shops, and carrying on their trade from morning until night, and doing nothing else in the world. ❋ John Morley (1880)

The company is "assiduous" about hiring people who conform to the law, Ross said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In October 2005, my man at Scotland Yard told me in how Sir Ian, even after Sir Gus O'Donnell, the cabinet secretary, warned leading civil servants not to regard their memoirs as an intrinsic part of their gold-plated redundancy packages, had been "assiduous" about keeping a diary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr. Yaffe's boisterous style, approaching at times the intensity of prose poetry, would have benefited from a more assiduous editor. ❋ David Yezzi (2011)

Janet is neither "the most assiduous student ... nor the most naturally gifted" (p. 121). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Harder to find are the obscure gems of natural-history writing contained in "The Essential Naturalist" Chicago, 534 pages, $39 , a collection of lost or dimly remembered articles unearthed by the book's assiduous editors. ❋ Jennie Erin Smith (2011)

And when he is joined by Russell Barr as a Boswell who is a mixture of close companion, whipping-boy and assiduous note-taker, you feel you are eavesdropping on one of the great double-acts in literary history. ❋ Unknown (2011)

An assiduous worker, he struggled for self-belief among the tennis brats, but eventually made the transition through the Challenger Tour and on to make his World Tour debut in 2007. ❋ Unknown (2012)

In the Beeb Adrian Chiles has earnt many brownie points from Aunty with his exposing of a private remark of dubious taste; his assiduous a***-licking will doubtless much improve his career. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Anyone who follows comic link aggregators has seen pieces on the “maid cafe,” a Japanese phenomenon featuring waitresses dressed up in domestic finery who provide assiduous service to patrons who like that sort of thing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You have heard from your most talented wordsmiths, best raconteurs, and most assiduous participants. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They have to realize that succeeding in Indonesia will require patient and assiduous engagement with Indonesia's many stakeholders. ❋ Karim Raslan (2011)

Lauderdale, a beleaguered, hard working and assiduous Assistant Chief Public Defender Gordon Weekes Jr. filed motions to dismiss six criminal cases because, he argued in a motion filed for one case last week, arrests made by deputies during episodes of the TLC/Discovery Channel show are "manufactured, rather than detected, crime for the benefit of the lowest form of entertainment: a voyeuristic reality television show." ❋ Andrea Lyon (2012)

His habit of being seen in the tea rooms with grandees and senior MPs reminds one colleague of the quiet, assiduous networking of John Major. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"I would say he has been really assiduous in doing his job as first minister," Salmond's spokesman said. ❋ Unknown (2011)