Rigorous
adjective
Very careful and exact, paying attention to small details.
The teacher is rigorous in marking the school work, no single mistake can escape her eyes.
Often appears as...
- rigorous check
- rigorous test
adjective
Demanding a lot of effort, attention or difficulty.
She follows a rigorous diet and exercise plan.
Often appears as...
- rigorous program
- rigorous training
adjective
Exact, not allowing any doubt or possibility of failure.
They use a rigorous method for selecting new employees.
Often appears as...
- rigorous process
- rigorous standards
adjective
Severe, or cruel.
He faced rigorous punishment for his actions.
Often appears as...
- rigorous punishment
- rigorous law
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Disapproving
adjective
Very careful and exact, paying attention to small details.
The teacher is rigorous in marking the school work, no single mistake can escape her eyes.
Often appears as...
- rigorous check
- rigorous test
adjective
Demanding a lot of effort, attention or difficulty.
She follows a rigorous diet and exercise plan.
Often appears as...
- rigorous program
- rigorous training
adjective
Exact, not allowing any doubt or possibility of failure.
They use a rigorous method for selecting new employees.
Often appears as...
- rigorous process
- rigorous standards
adjective
Severe, or cruel.
He faced rigorous punishment for his actions.
Often appears as...
- rigorous punishment
- rigorous law
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Precision Emphasis
Use 'rigorous' to emphasize extreme precision in actions or analysis.
Only a rigorous inspection could ensure the machine's safety.
Pro Tip 2/3Detail Oriented
When something requires meticulous attention to details, 'rigorous' is appropriate.
Her rigorous approach to research improved the study's accuracy.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
'Rigorous' can have positive connotations, showing something is well done.
His rigorous planning paid off during the event.
Pro Tip 1/3Precision Emphasis
Use 'rigorous' to emphasize extreme precision in actions or analysis.
Only a rigorous inspection could ensure the machine's safety.
Pro Tip 2/3Detail Oriented
When something requires meticulous attention to details, 'rigorous' is appropriate.
Her rigorous approach to research improved the study's accuracy.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
'Rigorous' can have positive connotations, showing something is well done.
His rigorous planning paid off during the event.
Pro Tip 1/3Precision Emphasis
Use 'rigorous' to emphasize extreme precision in actions or analysis.
Only a rigorous inspection could ensure the machine's safety.
Pro Tip 2/3Detail Oriented
When something requires meticulous attention to details, 'rigorous' is appropriate.
Her rigorous approach to research improved the study's accuracy.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
'Rigorous' can have positive connotations, showing something is well done.
His rigorous planning paid off during the event.
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The global movement to...
to show the best areas to focus on, which species can exist in those regions, and what benefits those species can provide to the community. Historically, these are questions that have been addressed through years of rigorous trial and error. But we started What if we fed this deep on-the-ground knowledge
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Why are earthquakes so...
Unfortunately, phones might not be able to provide the advance notice needed to enact safety protocols. But such detailed readings would still be useful for prediction tools like NASA’s Quakesim software, which can use a rigorous blend of geological data to identify regions at risk.
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Alexandra Fuller: Born...
you taking some kind of self-important ownership over somebody else's trauma it's very very different from barring rigorous witness whichever doesn't shock you and terrify you and keep you up all night and make you sob you're not paying attention but it's not yours right right
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Amos Winter: The cheap...
Now, there's three important points that I want to stress that I think really hit home in this project. The first is that this product works well because we were effectively able to combine rigorous engineering science and analysis with user-centered design
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How design can help make...
tough problems within bounded constraints science is about using a rigorous an empirical process to understand the laws that govern our universe and when they work together they can address some of the most pressing challenges of our time thank
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The mystery of chronic...
quiet and we put them to sleep with local anesthetics and most importantly what we do is we use a rigorous and often uncomfortable process of physical therapy and occupational therapy to retrain the nerves in the nervous system
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Police Horse Training PIPE...
they can find on a few occasions they find one that horse will then be put through a rigorous month-long physical and mental assessment to ascertain if they do indeed have the right stuff one of the things we look for when we
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Elliot Krane: The...
for this kind of pain. We take nerves that are noisy and active that should be quiet, and we put them to sleep with local anesthetics. And most importantly, what we do is we use a rigorous, and often uncomfortable, process
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Pamela Ronald: The case...
My opinion doesn't matter. Let's look at the evidence. After 20 years of careful study and rigorous peer review by thousands of independent scientists, every major scientific organization in the world has concluded
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What to trust in a...
to rule out those rival theories, and to distinguish correlation from causation. And academic journals involve peer review, where a paper is rigorously scrutinized by the world's leading minds.
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The global movement to...
to show the best areas to focus on, which species can exist in those regions, and what benefits those species can provide to the community. Historically, these are questions that have been addressed through years of rigorous trial and error. But we started What if we fed this deep on-the-ground knowledge
Video examples
Why are earthquakes so...
Unfortunately, phones might not be able to provide the advance notice needed to enact safety protocols. But such detailed readings would still be useful for prediction tools like NASA’s Quakesim software, which can use a rigorous blend of geological data to identify regions at risk.
Video examples
Alexandra Fuller: Born...
you taking some kind of self-important ownership over somebody else's trauma it's very very different from barring rigorous witness whichever doesn't shock you and terrify you and keep you up all night and make you sob you're not paying attention but it's not yours right right
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Amos Winter: The cheap...
Now, there's three important points that I want to stress that I think really hit home in this project. The first is that this product works well because we were effectively able to combine rigorous engineering science and analysis with user-centered design
Video examples
How design can help make...
tough problems within bounded constraints science is about using a rigorous an empirical process to understand the laws that govern our universe and when they work together they can address some of the most pressing challenges of our time thank
Video examples
The mystery of chronic...
quiet and we put them to sleep with local anesthetics and most importantly what we do is we use a rigorous and often uncomfortable process of physical therapy and occupational therapy to retrain the nerves in the nervous system
Video examples
Police Horse Training PIPE...
they can find on a few occasions they find one that horse will then be put through a rigorous month-long physical and mental assessment to ascertain if they do indeed have the right stuff one of the things we look for when we
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Elliot Krane: The...
for this kind of pain. We take nerves that are noisy and active that should be quiet, and we put them to sleep with local anesthetics. And most importantly, what we do is we use a rigorous, and often uncomfortable, process
Video examples
Pamela Ronald: The case...
My opinion doesn't matter. Let's look at the evidence. After 20 years of careful study and rigorous peer review by thousands of independent scientists, every major scientific organization in the world has concluded
Video examples
What to trust in a...
to rule out those rival theories, and to distinguish correlation from causation. And academic journals involve peer review, where a paper is rigorously scrutinized by the world's leading minds.
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Gayle Forman
American Author
In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.
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Ken Xie
American Businessman
Working with higher education institutions can also help to aid cybersecurity professionals who are already in the workforce. Programs like these can help to move the industry forward by building rigorous and universally accepted certifications and changing expectations of what a security expert can and should be.
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Paul Di Filippo
American Writer
Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.
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Jim Murphy
American Author
I write narrative nonfiction, creating lively scenes through action and the use of quotes from firsthand accounts, all based on rigorous research. If I say a character leaned against a fence on a windy day, than I have at least two sources to back up these details.
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Raney Aronson-Rath
American Producer
The kind of in-depth investigative journalism we practice at 'Frontline' is thoughtful, rigorous, and time-intensive. It requires us to constantly seek untold stories and to give our producers and reporters the time and resources to dig into them deeply.
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James Collins
Athlete
If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.
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Emily Mortimer
British Actress
I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.
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Felix Klein
German Mathematician
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
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Jemima Khan
English Journalist
Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only.
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Ryan Leaf
American Athlete
There's freedom in being rigorously honest. I lied all my life.
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Gayle Forman
American Author
In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.
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Ken Xie
American Businessman
Working with higher education institutions can also help to aid cybersecurity professionals who are already in the workforce. Programs like these can help to move the industry forward by building rigorous and universally accepted certifications and changing expectations of what a security expert can and should be.
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Paul Di Filippo
American Writer
Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.
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Jim Murphy
American Author
I write narrative nonfiction, creating lively scenes through action and the use of quotes from firsthand accounts, all based on rigorous research. If I say a character leaned against a fence on a windy day, than I have at least two sources to back up these details.
Quote examples
Raney Aronson-Rath
American Producer
The kind of in-depth investigative journalism we practice at 'Frontline' is thoughtful, rigorous, and time-intensive. It requires us to constantly seek untold stories and to give our producers and reporters the time and resources to dig into them deeply.
Quote examples
James Collins
Athlete
If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.
Quote examples
Emily Mortimer
British Actress
I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.
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Felix Klein
German Mathematician
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
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Jemima Khan
English Journalist
Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only.
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Ryan Leaf
American Athlete
There's freedom in being rigorously honest. I lied all my life.
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