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as in striving
to devote serious and sustained effort
the trapped climber endeavored mightily to get the boulder to budge
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as in trying
to make an effort to do
our club is forever endeavoring to find ways to raise more money for activities
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Recent Examples of endeavoring
By unionizing, the group is additionally endeavoring to ensure greater job protections, more transparency about pay and promotion standards, and have more of a say in the corporate environment.
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Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
One of the owners, Viola, made sure to keep it that way when endeavoring in this passion project.
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Valentina Di Donato,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
The president signed an executive order on March 31 that attempts to change the rules on mail-in voting, and his allies in Congress are endeavoring to reshape elections ahead of the midterms this fall, spending weeks debating a voter-ID bill that is almost certainly doomed.
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Shane Harris,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
Maryland’s Republican leaders would do well to listen to Bouchat and to follow his example rather than endeavoring to expel him from office for doing little more than stating the obvious.
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Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Apr. 2026
Don’t fear asking your stylist for help Hair textures and styles do run the gamut, and endeavoring to find extensions to match your own might feel like a fool’s errand.
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Hunter Lacey,
Allure,
9 Apr. 2026
According to a synopsis, the book sees Mickey endeavoring to help the wrongly accused.
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Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Feb. 2026
Motte is also endeavoring to hone how the teams operate with more agility in the age of virality.
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Jenny B. Fine,
Footwear News,
28 Jan. 2026
Or is the takeaway that there is always value in endeavoring to cultivate some form of consensus – no matter how small – over whether certain lines can never be crossed?
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B.b. Blaber,
The Conversation,
8 Dec. 2025
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
One of the owners, Viola, made sure to keep it that way when endeavoring in this passion project.
—
Valentina Di Donato,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
The president signed an executive order on March 31 that attempts to change the rules on mail-in voting, and his allies in Congress are endeavoring to reshape elections ahead of the midterms this fall, spending weeks debating a voter-ID bill that is almost certainly doomed.
—
Shane Harris,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
Maryland’s Republican leaders would do well to listen to Bouchat and to follow his example rather than endeavoring to expel him from office for doing little more than stating the obvious.
—
Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Apr. 2026
Don’t fear asking your stylist for help Hair textures and styles do run the gamut, and endeavoring to find extensions to match your own might feel like a fool’s errand.
—
Hunter Lacey,
Allure,
9 Apr. 2026
According to a synopsis, the book sees Mickey endeavoring to help the wrongly accused.
—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Feb. 2026
Motte is also endeavoring to hone how the teams operate with more agility in the age of virality.
—
Jenny B. Fine,
Footwear News,
28 Jan. 2026
Or is the takeaway that there is always value in endeavoring to cultivate some form of consensus – no matter how small – over whether certain lines can never be crossed?
—
B.b. Blaber,
The Conversation,
8 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for endeavoring
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Move from striving to stillness.
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Born in Brooklyn, NY, on April 4, 1932, Davis was a striving student who attended New York University on a full scholarship, and graduated magna cum laude.
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The acceptance rate has been compared to that of trying to get into Harvard University.
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There’s some heartbreaking moments where Mary’s trying so hard to please him.
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In the days since posting the news, Mitchell has continued to update her followers about the aftermath and the start of the healing process, including videos of herself laboring.
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Mercurius began laboring in the third and left after Hull's second homer of the CWS and ninth of the season leading off the fifth.
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Rather than attempting to further shrink the size of transistors, for which cutting-edge lithography is required, Huawei’s new approach focuses on optimizing chip transmission speeds by reimagining the chip’s layout.
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In the final seconds before impact, investigators found Wilburn was attempting to avoid the collision but was unable to stop before the red light.
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The two candidates also are offering differing solutions for the country’s struggling health system, ballooning public debt and entrenched corruption.
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The two candidates also are offering differing solutions for the country's struggling health system, ballooning public debt and entrenched corruption.
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Davidson is more steeped in Democratic politics, including working for years as a political consultant and winning a county legislature seat in 2023.
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These startups are working with a range of different non-invasive sensor modalities, including those that measure electrical pulses (EEG), those that measure magnetic fields (MEG), and those that use light to measure changes in blood flow (fNIRS).
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“Endeavoring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endeavoring. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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