Yes! Your word expedition starts here.

sedulous

diligent, persevering; making careful and persistent effort

Sightings:

Where the frosh came from

A New Yorker channeling Robert Frost ?

After Germany's big party

Those diligently irresponsible Pisceans (hey, I resemble that remark)

Stories from the Great War

Pablo Neruda's tributes to vegetables

What a lil' ol' dead body can do to a guy's imagination

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