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Recent Examples of hard-driving In its hard-driving push to toughen immigration policy, the Trump administration has found an unusual ally: old and at times rarely enforced laws that can be used to further its goals. Henry Gass, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2025 Brothers Osborne returns with a hard-driving, barroom-ready new track, while another brother duo, Band Reeves, melds country and pop with a faith-leaning message. Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2025 The pleasantness of his company sits unsteadily beside his reputation for being, at times, hard-driving, harsh, and unempathetic. 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 See All Example Sentences for hard-driving
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Adjective
  • Encoded in the machine's engineering was an ambitious globalism.
    Emily Feng, NPR, 5 July 2025
  • Lopez also has an ambitious and uninhibited way of speaking that is far removed from the prudence of players from older generations.
    Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • Following this ethos, Cano also trained and mentored aspiring musicians for decades, ultimately leading to his involvement in the 2000 founding of the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program (MMAP) in California’s San Fernando Valley.
    Michelle Mehrtens, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2025
  • But most aspiring teen entrepreneurs get stuck in research mode, bouncing between TikTok tips and YouTube tutorials.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025

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“Hard-driving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard-driving. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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