hard-charging
adjective
US
: very aggressive, determined, or ambitious : hard-driving
a hard-charging young executive
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Each song features Jinks’s fearless, unapologetically honest style of songwriting and hard-charging musical style, adding to his storied canon of music.
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Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2025
The 5-foot-10, 220-pound, hard-charging back known to barrel over defenders since his youth for the joy of it was selected by the New York Giants in the fourth round, his name announced by the league on the NFL draft stage in Green Bay.
—Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Musk has never denied his hard-charging style and believes that his work building electric cars and rockets is crucial for the health of the planet and the continuation of the human species, and that his DOGE work responds to threats of U.S. bankruptcy.
—Jonathan Landay, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
In the second period alone, Oettinger made a huge save on Brock Nelson in front, turned aside a Logan O’Connor breakaway and stopped a hard-charging Nathan MacKinnon in the final minute.
—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
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Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2025
The 5-foot-10, 220-pound, hard-charging back known to barrel over defenders since his youth for the joy of it was selected by the New York Giants in the fourth round, his name announced by the league on the NFL draft stage in Green Bay.
—Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Musk has never denied his hard-charging style and believes that his work building electric cars and rockets is crucial for the health of the planet and the continuation of the human species, and that his DOGE work responds to threats of U.S. bankruptcy.
—Jonathan Landay, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
In the second period alone, Oettinger made a huge save on Brock Nelson in front, turned aside a Logan O’Connor breakaway and stopped a hard-charging Nathan MacKinnon in the final minute.
—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
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“Hard-charging.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-charging. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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