Related Words for striving

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strain
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Noun, Verb
pains
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Verb, Noun
seeking
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Verb
trying
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Verb
endeavoring
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Verb
aspiring
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Adjective
struggling
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Verb
aiming
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Verb
attaining
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Verb
endeavouring
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Verb
desiring
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Verb
achieving
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Verb
wanting
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Verb
attempting
x/x
Verb
helping
/x
Verb
continually
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Adverb
persevering
xx/x
Adjective
accomplishing
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Verb
succeed
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Verb
working
/x
Verb
looking
/x
Verb
desperately
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Adverb
failing
/x
Verb
emulate
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Verb
maintain
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Verb
tirelessly
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Adverb
innovating
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Adjective
going
/x
Verb
cultivate
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Verb
continuing
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Verb
seeming
/x
Verb
improving
x/x
Verb
encouraging
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Adjective
able
/x
Adjective
pushing
/x
Verb
constantly
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Adverb
contriving
x/x
Noun
diligently
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Adverb
eager
/x
Adjective
motivated
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Adjective
efforts
/x
Noun
embody
x/x
Verb
compete
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Verb
must
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Verb, Noun
laboring
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Noun
vainly
/x
Adverb
determined
x/x
Verb
actualizing
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Verb, Adjective, Noun
quest
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Noun
bettering
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Verb
wishing
/x
Verb
inspire
x/
Verb
perfection
x/x
Noun
excellence
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Noun
committing
x/x
Verb
willing
/x
Adjective
prospering
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Verb
vying
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Verb
imitate
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Verb
finding
/x
Noun
thrive
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Verb
embracing
x/x
Adjective
inculcate
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Verb
sustain
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Verb
learning
/x
Noun
tending
/x
Verb
ought
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Verb, Noun, Adverb
actively
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Adverb
uphold
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Verb
futilely
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Adverb
goal
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Noun
keep
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Verb
battling
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Verb
fighting
/x
Noun
keen
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Adjective
hoping
/x
Verb
harmonize
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Verb
redefine
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Verb
needing
/x
Verb
imperative
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Noun
desirous
x/x
Adjective
intending
x/x
Verb
pretending
x/x
Verb
relentlessly
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Adverb
proud
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Adjective
pursuit
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Noun
promote
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Verb
truly
/x
Adverb
contend
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Verb
doing
/x
Verb
preserve
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Verb
excelling
x/x
Verb
nurture
/x
Noun
perfecting
x/x
Noun
continuously
x/xxx
Adverb
develop
x/x
Verb
perpetually
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Adverb
reaching
/x
Verb
living
/x
Noun
unite
/x
Verb
earnestly
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Adverb
unify
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Verb
pursuing
x/x
Verb
evolve
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Verb
action
/x
Noun
labouring
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Noun
toiling
/x
Verb
practicing
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Verb
wrangling
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Noun
exercising
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Verb
jockeying
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Noun
bargaining
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Noun
venturing
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Verb
tugging
/x
Verb
tensing
/x
Noun
applying
x/x
Verb
treading
/x
Verb
rallying
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Noun
undertaking
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Noun
pulling
/x
Verb
travelling
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Noun
delving
/x
Verb
pursuance
x/x
Noun
soldiering
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Noun
shooting
/x
Noun
actuation
/x/x
Noun
poring
/x
Verb
motivation
xx/x
Noun
stepping
/x
Verb
controlling
x/x
Verb
pleading
/x
Noun
relenting
x/x
Noun
furthering
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Verb
tilling
/x
Noun
scheming
/x
Noun
faustian
/x
Adjective
ceaseless
/x
Adjective
creating
x/x
Noun
affirming
x/x
Adjective, Noun
aggressive
x/x
Adjective, Noun
altruism
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Noun
amoral
x/x
Adjective
anarchic
x/x
Adjective
asocial
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Adjective, Noun
beating
/x
Noun
becoming
x/x
Noun, Adjective
bicultural
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
bisexual
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
campaigning
x/x
Noun
craving
/x
Noun
disquiet
x/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
enslaved
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Verb
focusing
/xx
Adjective, Noun
hunger
/x
Noun, Verb
irresponsible
xx/xx
Adjective, Noun
longing
/x
Noun
purposeful
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Adjective
purposeless
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Adjective
reliant
x/x
Adjective
research
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Noun, Verb
restlessness
/xx
Noun
schizophrenic
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
searching
/x
Noun, Adjective
sentient
/x
Adjective, Noun
strife
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Noun
tempting
/x
Adjective, Noun
treaty
/x
Noun, Verb
unintelligent
xx/xx
Adjective
urge
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Noun, Verb
volitional
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
yearning
/x
Noun
get
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Verb, Noun
off
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Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
save
/
Verb, Noun
breakeven
/xx
Verb, Noun, Adjective
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb
die
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Verb, Noun
fall
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Verb, Noun
tell
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Verb, Noun
backwater
/xx
Noun, Verb
blow
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Noun, Verb, Adjective