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Resolve to Define Resolute
Resolute comes from the same Latin verb as resolved, and the two words are often synonyms. So how did it get this meaning from the Latin? Essentially, when you resolve a question or problem, you come to a conclusion, and once you've reached a conclusion you can proceed to act. So in your New Year's resolutions, you resolve—or make up your mind—to do something. Unfortunately, New Year's resolutions aren't a good illustration of the meaning of resolute, since only about one in ten actually seems to succeed.
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Michael Useem, Fortune Asia, 24 Oct. 2024
Meanwhile, in the work of the list’s four Arizona firms, the state’s sublime tradition of Desert Modernism, solidified most notably throughout Phoenix in the 1950s in the single-family work of Alfred Beadle, continues statewide with resolute spiritedness.
—Richard Olsen, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
While pulling Japanese companies more toward the West’s primacy on investor value, directionally right for building the resolute model, the performance consequences for investors have been more equivocal.
—Michael Useem, Fortune Asia, 24 Oct. 2024
The Reeves, now adults with children of their own, are resolute that there have been only positive repercussions from sitting through countless interviews related to something that for any family would be considered a nightmare.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Resolute.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resolute. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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