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Toughness shown by engineers, source of industry amid quiet (10)

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I believe the answer is:

resilience

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'toughness' is the definition.

'engineers source of industry amid quiet' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'engineers' could be 'res' and 'res' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'shown by' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for resilience that I've seen before include "Ability to bounce back" , "Ability to recover quickly" , "flexibility" , "Ability to spring back" , "make quick recovery" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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