as in ambitious
having a strong desire for personal advancement
she's the most hard-driving malpractice lawyer I've ever seen
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Recent Examples of hard-driving
Screeching tires and a roaring engine offer an apt opening for this hard-driving song from these longtime metal masters.
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Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
If your porch furniture is under cover, there's still a chance those cushions will get blown around or hit by hard-driving rain.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2025
The affable Carroll was the polar opposite of the stern hard-driving Parcells.
—Tribune Content Agency, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2025
But despite the successes, and Marvel’s growing corporatization and assured dominance in comics, Shooter’s hard-driving and micro-managerial style began to alienate talent and editors.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025
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Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2025
If your porch furniture is under cover, there's still a chance those cushions will get blown around or hit by hard-driving rain.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2025
The affable Carroll was the polar opposite of the stern hard-driving Parcells.
—Tribune Content Agency, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2025
But despite the successes, and Marvel’s growing corporatization and assured dominance in comics, Shooter’s hard-driving and micro-managerial style began to alienate talent and editors.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for hard-driving
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard-driving
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O'Connor does a great job of embodying the character of Mooney, who is not the ambitious criminal the film's title suggests.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
17 Oct. 2025
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In the moment that summarizes one of Good News’ thematic throughlines, Nobody is speaking to Seo Go-myung (Weak Hero Class 1’s Hong Kyung), an ambitious Air Force lieutenant who is as close to an audience surrogate as Good News gets.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
17 Oct. 2025
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Set against the backdrop of Los Angeles’s Night Stalker murders in 1985, this A24 film stars Mia Goth as an aspiring horror actress and peep-show star who walks into a growing den of chaos on the set of her first real film.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
19 Oct. 2025
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By steadily building a following over the years, Karsten Runquist, a 27-year-old aspiring director with an affable and unassuming demeanor, has become, by some measures, one of today’s most prominent movie reviewers.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Hard-driving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard-driving. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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