hard-charging

adjective

US
: very aggressive, determined, or ambitious : hard-driving
a hard-charging young executive

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Just ask Dan Campbell’s hard-charging Detroit Lions, who at one point had 21 players on IR last year and got upset in the playoffs because they’d been ravaged by injuries. Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025 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. Dan Schlossberg, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025 But Leitersdorf—born in Israel, raised in Palo Alto, and who earned his doctorate by 23—approaches that ambition with a hard-charging, exuberant confidence. Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 7 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 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 10 Sep. 2025.

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