In a sentence
Six example sentences with rigorous, each labelled with its topic.
Before publication the lab repeats every measurement on different equipment, a rigorous habit that has caught two errors already.
Science
The coach's rigorous film sessions cover every possession, timing each closeout to the tenth of a second.
Basketball
Approval demands rigorous trials in which neither the patient nor the doctor knows who received the actual compound.
Medicine
A rigorous argument names every assumption, so a reader can see exactly which step to attack rather than waving at the whole.
Philosophy
The fund's rigorous due diligence took four months and turned up a warehouse that existed only on the company's balance sheet.
Finance
Conservatory training is rigorous: scales for an hour before breakfast, then six hours of practice logged and signed by a teacher.
Music
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