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driven

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verb

past participle of drive
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as in run
to urge, push, or force onward cowboys drove the herd of cattle from San Antonio to San Francisco

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as in tooled
to travel by a motorized vehicle I'm going to drive across the country—want to come?

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Recent Examples of driven
Adjective
If ownership and excitement are high, the team will stay driven. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025 Collaborators are relationally driven, empathic, and excellent at raising morale and culture. Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
Thirdly, post-COVID-19 economic dynamics have led to significant increases in new equipment pricing, driven by persistent supply chain disruptions, inflationary pressures, and sustained tariffs imposed on Chinese manufacturers. Mark Le Dain, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025 Supply chain bottlenecks and shortages of critical components—such as semiconductors and specialized machinery—have further driven up prices, highlighting the substantial gap between current book values and genuine replacement or reproduction costs. Mark Le Dain, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for driven
Recent Examples of Synonyms for driven
Adjective
  • The Residence starred Uzo Aduba as quirky detective Cordelia Cupp, who uses her cunning intellect and obsessive bird-watching abilities to crack otherwise unsolvable cases.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 2 July 2025
  • In a saturated mid-market bracket, Hampton’s leadership has managed to differentiate the brand through an obsessive drive to understand customers.
    Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • Trump has set a July 9 deadline for imposing reciprocal tariffs, but trade talks have run into obstacles including discussions over duties on farm goods, steel and car parts.
    Jennifer Cunningham, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 July 2025
  • The company has applied for permission from the US Food and Drug Administration to run a phase II trial.
    Rachel Fieldhouse, Scientific American, 1 July 2025
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  • Pope Francis also pushed Biden, who is Catholic and spoke to the pontiff last week, to prevent the executions.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Chappell and Webb have pushed each other out of their comfort zones to create some truly remarkable work in 2024.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Written and directed by documentarian Brian Tetsuro Ivie (Emanuel) in his narrative directorial debut, the film tells the story of an impulsive young woman and a reclusive older man who launch on a poignant cross‑country road trip.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 26 June 2025
  • Unfortunately, impulsive, inventory-optimization metric chasing often soothes symptoms while elevating strategic risk.
    Noah Barsky, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Verb
  • Some associates of the anti-government militant Ammon Bundy rode along with him.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • After Thompson was gunned down, police said, Mangione ran off, rode into Central Park on a bike, ditched it on the Upper West Side, then took a taxi to the Port Authority bus terminal near the George Washington Bridge and escaped from the city.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 11 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Vance pressed Zelenskyy, who has thanked America over and over.
    Maureen Dowd, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • At her pool, visitors pressed against a window, ogling the manatees swimming inside without always understanding the calamities that brought the animals there.
    Bethany Barnes, Sun Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • That early surge propelled the Tigers to a 76-50 victory over Bryant in Sunday’s championship game of the Chad Gardner Law King of the Bluegrass Holiday Classic at Fairdale.
    Rich Barak, The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The success has propelled Shaboozey into the public eye and led to show appearances and campaigns, including YSL’s Myslf Le Parfum campaign this fall.
    Kristen Tauer, WWD, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Clad in all white, the 32x Grammy winner rode into NRG Stadium on a white horse, performing ’16 Carriages’ and her Beatles ‘Blackbiird’ cover to kick off her A Cowboy Carter Christmas NFL halftime show at the Houston Texans-Baltimore Ravens game.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 25 Dec. 2024
  • And the Jewish world mourned the deaths of Ken Holtzman, the winningest Jewish pitcher in MLB history, and Hall of Fame jockey Walter Blum, who rode to victory in the Belmont Stakes.
    Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024

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“Driven.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/driven. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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