Stick-to-itiveness is a real word and a handy noun coined in 1884, meaning dogged perseverance.

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It is character--a stick-to-itiveness and a willingness to take risks, to take leaps into the unknown.

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The process was long, requiring much research, patience, tact and stick-to-itiveness.

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And it would not have happened had it not been for the incredible persistence and stick-to-itiveness of all the folks in the audience here today.

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Born into humble circumstances in Scotland, this onetime bank clerk and schoolteacher had the amazing knowledge, perspicacity and stick-to-itiveness to organize the undertaking and push it on an irrevocable course to completion.

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High achievers personify stick-to-itiveness.

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