relentless
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Synonyms for relentless
Synonyms
determined, dogged, grim, implacable, unappeasable, unflinching, unrelenting, unyielding
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No one talked about companies like the ones that most people see every day — that is, who are engaged in a relentless effort to lower prices. — Washington Post, "What the Democratic candidates are getting wrong about business," 3 Aug. 2019 The schedules of all three players has been fairly relentless for the last few years and that could catch up with them next season. — SI.com, "Ranking the Strike Forces of the Premier League Seasons Ahead of the 2019/20 Season," 30 July 2019 His action sequences are chaotic, aggressively stylized, thrilling, and relentless. — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, "Two Comedy Writers Take “Face/Off” to a New Level of Weirdness," 17 July 2019 Where Petersen’s three-hour epic was itself a U-boat, silent and heavy and claustrophobic for much of its run time, this new version is a torpedo, efficient and relentless. — Adrian Daub, The New Republic, "Hulu’s Das Boot Gets Lost at Sea," 19 June 2019 The wordplay is relentless as a quartet of scholarly men try (and fail) to avoid romance, and slapstick acting sometimes just gets in the way. — Washington Post, "13 things to do in the D.C. area this week," 10 June 2019 Still, theaters can’t rest on their 3D-IMAX receipts, Alamo Drafthouse founder League said, because competition is relentless, coming from both inside and outside the industry. — John Wenzel, The Denver Post, "Denver-area movie theaters are thriving as the rest of the nation sees a downturn," 22 July 2019 The pace was relentless amid fears the Soviets would get to the moon first. — al.com, "Apollo 11 at 50: Celebrating first steps on another world," 20 July 2019 Two Castle Hills City Council members were arrested Thursday, accused of tampering with documents as part of a relentless, yearlong effort to get the city manager fired or force him to quit. — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, "Political controversy in San Antonio suburb heats up with arrest of two Castle Hills councilwomen," 19 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'relentless.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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