Meaning & use
Industriously
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In a hardworking, diligent, and persistent manner.
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The students worked industriously to finish the project before the deadline.
She industriously catalogued every book in the library over the summer.
A note on using this word
Industriously derives from industrious, which originally meant "skillful" before shifting to its modern sense of hardworking, related to the noun industry.
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