hard-charging
adjective
US
: very aggressive, determined, or ambitious : hard-driving
a hard-charging young executive
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Houston’s long-standing lead in the American League West is threatened not only by the loss of their star closer but also by the hard-charging Seattle Mariners – a team determined to win its first pennant.
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Dan Schlossberg, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Strawberry, an outfielder who grew up playing on the hardscrabble streets of South Central Los Angeles, was part of the hard-partying, hard-charging 1986 Mets team that brought the second-ever World Series championship to Queens.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2025
Moore, the hard-charging sixty-year-old president of the mission department, ran to the pastor’s study with his phone in mind.
—Joshua Sharpe
august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Two hard-charging transfers once overlooked and soon forgotten, Jackson and Gumbs recalled their days as underdogs this summer during a seven-day trip Italy with the GatorMade program.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
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Dan Schlossberg, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Strawberry, an outfielder who grew up playing on the hardscrabble streets of South Central Los Angeles, was part of the hard-partying, hard-charging 1986 Mets team that brought the second-ever World Series championship to Queens.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2025
Moore, the hard-charging sixty-year-old president of the mission department, ran to the pastor’s study with his phone in mind.
—Joshua Sharpe
august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Two hard-charging transfers once overlooked and soon forgotten, Jackson and Gumbs recalled their days as underdogs this summer during a seven-day trip Italy with the GatorMade program.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hard-charging
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“Hard-charging.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-charging. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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