endeavored

past tense of endeavor
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of endeavored Padilla endeavored to make his mark early. Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025 However, the doormat goes to the Hustlers, who like Orlando endeavored to dismantle a successful 2024 playoff team and turn it into the worst team in 2025, a weird look for a team owned by one of the lead investors in the league. Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025 Once the institution opened in 1833 with space for more than 400 veterans, naval officers endeavored to provide a comfortable life for the residents. Made By History, TIME, 20 Mar. 2025 For example, in December Norfolk Land Trust and Northeast Wilderness Trust finalized a conservation easement on more than 600 acres of forest that a group of Norfolk families has endeavored to protect since the 1980s. Shelley Harms, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2025 Balance Coffee’s founder, James Bellis, recognized this gap in the wellness space and endeavored to sift through all the coffee producers around the world to bring consumers only the most nutritious brews. Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024 Mattel hit it big with Barbie in 2023, and have since endeavored to create a cinematic universe of their own, telling The New Yorker shortly after Barbie's release that the company had 45 films in development. Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2024 On Wednesday night, Jonathan Becker endeavored to arrive at the Waverly Inn well before AIR MAIL’s party in celebration of his new book, Lost Time. Daniel Paik, airmail.news, 5 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for endeavored
Verb
  • Her sister struggled for years with substance use, leading their mother to assume custody of her sister's two children.
    Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 Oct. 2025
  • After an effort to create a Falls of the Ohio national park fell short in 1967, Kentucky and Indiana officials struggled to stop the falls from becoming a garbage dump.
    Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Only four minutes later, Kilman tried to pass around Aaronson, but gave it straight to the attentive No 11.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In 1985, he was tried and acquitted for the murder of his first wife.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Betsy’s love labored between two living losses.
    Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In service jobs, Black workers labored as porters, chauffeurs, and servers; in manufacturing plants, white supremacist pseudoscience was harnessed to justify forcing Black workers to perform the most difficult and dangerous work.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The man and his uncle were on their way to a home remodeling job when immigration authorities attempted to stop their truck in his Avondale neighborhood.
    Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Apollo, for example, attempted to acquire Cedar Fair back in 2010 before their merger fell through due to lack of investor support, and Blackstone already owns Great Wolf Lodge – a complementary asset.
    Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Since Operation Nightingale began, the three agencies have worked on 24,757 square feet of the site and recovered nearly 5,000 of the plane’s artifacts.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • But the real, urgent work ahead of them was to redeem the losses slavery had wrought.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025

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“Endeavored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endeavored. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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