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Example sentences for: grit

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Stross could have written a fabulous book about how Microsoft's meritocracy produced a perfect monopoly, out of sheer grit and the love bestowed upon its team of managers by America's mutual funds (their fondness for Microsoft stock yielded a price that allowed the company, with its handsome stock-option compensation program, to hold on to its best, most talented players).
The city sites are untouched by the grit and idiosyncrasy that define urban living.
Roseanne's finale after nine seasons leaves reviewers unimpressed, but it occasions encomiums for the show's working-class grit.
And the Post goes in for the most grit, repeating AP dispatches about one terrorist's spine flying through a shop window and a severed head laying in the street.
We refuse to live uncomfortably, and in so doing lose all sorts of knowledge that can only come with the grit of hands-on labor.