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Definition of "tenaciously" []

  • In a tenacious manner. (adverb)

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Use "tenaciously" in a sentence
  • "They may bargain tenaciously but the last thing they'll do is take a position that could jeopardize jobs."
  • "That Kremlin statement came after Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan promised his government would "tenaciously" pursue the return of the islands during a trip to Moscow later this week by Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara."
  • "Bush has remained seriously jerky to the end, taunting the rest of the G-8 about his crappy environmental record, vetoing health care for poor children, utterly unrepentant in his goodbye interviews, delaying needed fiscal stimulus and plunging the world into depression, fighting tenaciously to keep American troops in Iraq in the teeth of opposition from the American and Iraqi publics, etc."