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"Kevin Pietersen is the most diligent and responsible of trainers and prides himself on his physical fitness and preparation for playing cricket.
A judge has praised the "diligent " work of law students for helping overturn a former gang member's murder conviction.
In June 1863, this 31-year-old adventuress from Yorkshire embarked on what was one of Thomas Cook's earliest tours to Switzerland and, thanks to Miss Jemima's diligent diarising, was the first to be recorded.
Uzbekistan reaped 3.4 million tons of cotton this year, President Islam Karimov said in October in a gushing message of thanks to Uzbekistan's cotton farmers for their "difficult and diligent labour".
Geoff Miller is not just the most diligent of men, covering thousands of miles in his role as national selector, but he is cagey with it.
"As a writer whose work is largely predicated on diligent and careful research, I am reluctant to admit that in this case, I didn't do enough of it before sending my name out into the Cloud," writes Epstein.
Homer insisted staff in her department had been diligent in their approach to the files and said their record of securing one conviction and £135m in unpaid tax, fines and interest compared well with other countries.
And maybe we can start on English football itself, with its wasted riches, its trivia obsession, its proud and diligent philistinism.
THAT WAS THEN; Sinn Fein is now not only in diligent Ministerial panoply without even a.38 changing hands, but its candidates have also romped home in both recent elections as the bigger NI nationalist party, soundly flogging what party spokespersons regard contemptuously as a dying SDLP horse.
After studying and documenting closely the work of local artisans of construction in Dharavi, Bhandup, Ghatkopar, Sakinaka, Shivaji Nagar and other homegrown neighbourhoods in Mumbai (but also in Sao Paulo, Rio, Shenzhen and Tokyo), we decided to join forces with artisans whom we thought were particularly diligent and innovative.
When you are very diligent at collecting data, it may appear as if you have a much greater problem than your colleagues, your counterparts in other agencies, and that's something that puts police leaders at risk".
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The adjective "diligent " primarily functions to modify nouns , describing individuals or processes characterized by careful and persistent effort. Ludwig confirms this by providing numerous examples of its usage in describing people and their work.
Expression frequency: Very common
