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• r  in a sedulous manner
  this illusion has been sedulously fostered

• Nast's gentler conceptions of John Bull, Uncle Sam and even Santa Claus are the ones that most artists still sedulously ape.
• The infrequent churchgoer, the stranded salesman, the sedulously religious, the homebody, the student, the tycoon, the clerk, these people and their like attend.
• It is the Stalinist model that is being sedulously imitated around the globe.