strive
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also strived\ ˈstrīvd
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striven\ ˈstri-vən
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or strived;
striving\ ˈstrī-viŋ
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bang away, beaver (away), dig (away), drudge, endeavor, fag, grub, hump, hustle, labor, moil, peg (away), plod, plow, plug, slave, slog, strain, struggle, sweat, toil, travail, tug, work
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The group is raising money for the Child Life program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, which strives to meet the developmental, social and emotional needs of patients and their families. — Andrew J. Campa, Glendale News-Press, "Heroics in no short supply for Crescenta Valley High School trio," 3 Sep. 2019 Black excellence is something many of us strive for. — Steven Underwood, Essence, "Opinion: Is Black Excellence Killing Us?," 21 Aug. 2019 Companies should strive for as much transparency as possible in their decisionmaking, for both those impacted by their decisions and the general public. — Peter Rubin, WIRED, "When Limiting Online Speech to Curb Violence, We Should Be Careful," 9 Aug. 2019 The contest celebrates artists and scientists who strive to illustrate the brain’s complexities. — Jennifer Leman, Scientific American, "The Brain in Images: Top Entries in the Art of Neuroscience," 29 July 2019 Or more importantly, how so many people strive to be the best of the best, and lose track of the lessons learned along the way. — Lindsay Tigar, CNN Underscored, "These Amazon best-selling books are the ultimate beach reads," 25 July 2019 From Goethe to Kant to Kleist, from Gottlob Frege to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Germans have been openly obsessed with the truth — striving for it (streben); grasping it (fassen) — since anyone began listening to what Germans had to say. — Rebecca Schuman, Longreads, "On Truth and Lying in the Extra German Sense," 20 June 2019 Hip-hop has been around for more than 45 years, and Indianapolis rappers are still striving to be the city’s first act to break through to the mainstream. — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, "He's taking the stairs, not the elevator, but Indianapolis rapper Trajik just keeps rising," 22 Aug. 2019 Alexis McGill Johnson, Planned Parenthood’s acting president and CEO, said the organization’s nationwide network of health centers would remain open and strive to make up for the loss of federal money. — Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, Twin Cities, "Planned Parenthood leaves federal family planning program," 19 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'strive.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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