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
The pleasantness of his company sits unsteadily beside his reputation for being, at times, hard-driving, harsh, and unempathetic.
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Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
That same year, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had spent just over a decade as Turkey’s hard-driving prime minister, became its president.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
His management style is famously hard-driving and all-consuming.
—Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
Sister Rita Michelle Proctor has challenged generations of children in her roles as everything from a basketball coach and classroom teacher to a hard-driving principal.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2025
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Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
That same year, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had spent just over a decade as Turkey’s hard-driving prime minister, became its president.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
His management style is famously hard-driving and all-consuming.
—Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
Sister Rita Michelle Proctor has challenged generations of children in her roles as everything from a basketball coach and classroom teacher to a hard-driving principal.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard-driving
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This intensive research helps weed out goals that are genuinely unrealistic or, while ambitious, are already being solved by the market.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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At a 1956 meeting with a research director at the U.S. Weather Bureau (a precursor to the National Weather Service), Keeling made an ambitious pitch: continuously monitoring CO2 using a gas analyzer, a high-tech but as-yet-unproven tool for the job.—
Ashley Braun,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 May 2025
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Born in Nicaragua and raised in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, Ramirez had scored an early film-producing credit (Public Figure, an independent documentary about social media featuring Rose McGowan) and had been the subject of a photo spread on Vanity Teen, a website highlighting aspiring models.—
Ben Widdicombe,
Vulture,
12 May 2025
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Christie, alongside dozens of other experts, is there for any aspiring writer with 79 pounds (about $105) to spare.—
Amelia Nierenberg,
New York Times,
8 May 2025
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“Hard-driving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard-driving. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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