Though again, that strategy is much easier said than done — even if Butler isn’t much of a threat to pull up from three, he’s tenacious and swift enough to time his drives for extensive damage in the paint.
The Heat Took A Page From The Lakers’ Playbook|Michael Pina|October 6, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
I mean, they understood later on that the Americans were tenacious and they’re just going to keep working.
When Your Safety Becomes My Danger (Ep. 432)|Stephen J. Dubner|September 24, 2020|Freakonomics
Thompson’s Hoyas, tenacious on defense, came to embody the rough and gritty Big East Conference of the 1980s, and Thompson was at the center of it all.
John Thompson’s Unapologetic Blackness Changed College Basketball|Santul Nerkar|September 1, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
They may not throw knockout punches by themselves, but they do represent a tenacious setup combo that’s peppered throughout Miami’s 48-minute fights.
The Miami Heat’s Dynamic Duo Could Make Noise In The Playoffs|Michael Pina|August 12, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
For half a century, Ferencz, a tenacious 95-year-old, has been on his own Lemkin-esque campaign.
The Man Who Invented the Word ‘Genocide’|Nina Strochlic|November 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But tenacious Albanian partisans kept reinserting the claim.
You Can Look It Up: The Wikipedia Story|Walter Isaacson|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Ware, a tenacious pass-rusher, is a 7-time Pro Bowler and the Cowboys all-time leader in sacks, with 117 in nine seasons.
First Mega-Deal Is Done as the NFL’s Free Agent Scrap Begins|Ben Teitelbaum|March 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Attention all you Darwinists still battling the tenacious Creationists (and losing miserably)!
What the Man With No Ass Crack Can Teach Darwinists and Creationists|Kent Sepkowitz|January 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“The only way to get justice is to patient and persistent and tenacious,” Browder says.
Fraud and the City: Russia’s Manhattan Money Laundering|Michael Daly|September 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The wolf was a tenacious fellow, and he struggled desperately to rise.
The Camp in the Snow|William Murray Graydon
Viscous and tenacious substances are also obtained from some vegetable matters and are called "glue."
Animal Proteins|Hugh Garner Bennett
A tenacious mucilage will be produced, almost entirely soluble in water.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines|Andrew Ure
These people usually have square, stocky bodies, strong and wiry, and are tenacious of life.
How to Read Human Nature|William Walker Atkinson
This fever is often tenacious and intermittent; sometimes it is congestive.
The Delight Makers|Adolf Bandelier
British Dictionary definitions for tenacious
tenacious
/ (tɪˈneɪʃəs) /
adjective
holding or grasping firmly; forcefula tenacious grip
retentivea tenacious memory
stubborn or persistenta tenacious character
holding together firmly; tough or cohesivetenacious cement
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