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stick-to-it-iveness

[stik-too-i-tiv, -it-iv]

stick-to-it-ive

[stik-too-i-tiv, -it-iv]
adjective Informal.
tenaciously resolute; persevering: Stick-to-it-ive people get ahead in life.

Origin:
1865–70, Americanism; stick to it + -ive

stick-to-it-ive·ness, noun
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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