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adjective

steadfast

marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

In a sentence

Six example sentences with steadfast, each labelled with its topic.

  • Through injury and two lost seasons she stayed steadfast, in the pool at five every morning without a single excuse.

    Fitness

  • The councillor remained steadfast about the library, voting the same way through four budgets and two hostile campaigns.

    Politics

  • Her steadfast Tuesday practice never moved for holidays or illness, and after nine years the cello finally sounded easy.

    Music

  • Investors passed forty times, but the founders stayed steadfast, shipping a new version every Friday until one said yes.

    Startups

  • The Stoics prized a steadfast mind, one that meets praise and insult with the same unhurried calm.

    Philosophy

  • Barbara McClintock stayed steadfast about jumping genes through decades of polite dismissal, and the Nobel came at eighty-one.

    Science

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