hard-charging

adjective

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

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Indeed, these pages have numerous examples of hard-charging entrepreneurs hell-bent on pushing boundaries. Naazneen Karmali, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 Among them is Kyoko (Yu Aoi), a hard-charging TV news reporter, who, at the crime scene, is reunited with detective Kenji Okamoto (Shun Oguri), her former lover, freshly pulled off suspension to work the case. Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026 But do mind the closing gap between the soccer’s elite teams and the hard-charging Americans, who will head into the knockout stage Wednesday against Bosnia-Herzegovina with their most dynamic and dangerous player in the lineup again. Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026 Newsom is reportedly aiming to keep the measure off the ballot by negotiating some kind of compromise with Dave Regan, the hard-charging president of SEIU-UHCW. Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 18 June 2026 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 26 Jul. 2026.

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