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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not tiring or ceasing; indefatigable or persistent: synonym: tireless.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not becoming tired or exhausted; unwearied: as, untiring patience.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not able to be tired; inexhaustible.
  • adjective Unfailing; resolute.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective characterized by hard work and perseverance

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Examples

  • At the ceremony, various speakers eulogized Uba for what they described as his untiring effort to make PDP the number one political party in the state, adding that of all the political leaders in the party, he is the only one without personal ambition as his interest is how to move Anambra forward.

    Vanguard News 2009

  • At the ceremony, various speakers eulogized Uba for what they described as his untiring effort to make PDP the number one political party in the state, adding that of all the political leaders in the party, he is the only one without personal ambition as his interest is how to move Anambra forward.

    Vanguard News 2009

  • The Congress President also recalled the untiring devotion and enthusiasm with which doctors, nurses, fire brigade and ambulance services worked together dealing with all the wounded and troubled.

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  • The Congress President also recalled the untiring devotion and enthusiasm with which doctors, nurses, fire brigade and ambulance services worked together dealing with all the wounded and troubled.

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  • The choice of Ahtisaari honoured an "outstanding mediator," Mjos said, noting his "untiring" efforts.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2008

  • It was the old and ever-untiring pursuit of gold, and they had come to the Solomons to get it.

    Chapter 14 2010

  • He won the 2002 peace prize for "his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts."

    What if Nobel Prize winners ran the country? Zachary A. Goldfarb 2010

  • The untiring guru of movie publicity hits the French Riviera for the 64th annual Cannes Film Festival.

    Peggy Siegal: To Cannes With Love, Peggy Siegal 2011

  • Nineteen years have elapsed, and despite our untiring efforts, we have failed to find the man who really did throw the bomb.

    Chapter 17: The Scarlet Livery 2010

  • How hard he toiled and how greatly he suffered, I well know; for I have been with him during these twenty anxious years and I know his patience, his untiring effort, his infinite devotion to the Cause for which, only two months gone, he laid down his life.

    Chapter 1: My Eagle 2010

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