strivings

plural of striving

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Noun
  • Season-long struggles; still fighting Charlotte has five games left on the schedule, starting with North Texas (6-1, 2-1 American) next Friday night on ESPN2.
    Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2025
  • To commemorate World Dyslexia Day, the former journalist opened up about her experience and the struggles of not being diagnosed early enough.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Soros, through his for-profit and nonprofit endeavors, remains one of the more interesting players in small- and medium-sized left-leaning partisan media in 2025.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • This might make my literary endeavors, as well as my other gig—remote therapist—somewhat difficult.
    Sam Lipsyte, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Pineiro finished off the second half’s opening drive with a 43-yard field goal, pushing the lead to 13-3 and making him 17-of-17 on field-goal attempts since replacing Jake Moody in Week 2.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Owens led the Aggies with 69 rushing yards and 2 touchdowns on 14 attempts.
    Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The United States first seized Guantánamo Bay in 1898, when Washington intervened in the last throes of Cuba’s thirty-year struggle for independence from Spain.
    Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025
  • As Wes, Sope Dirisu has played a compelling figure in the blind throes of a meteoric rise.
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • School districts would make their own decisions about which technology provider to use, and purchase through competitive bids.
    Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The charter amendment, if passed, would scale back the current requirements by allowing the five-member City Commission to approve the sale of valuable city land, at market value, through a four-fifths vote in lieu of three bids.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Strivings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strivings. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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