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present tense third-person singular of struggle

struggles

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noun

plural of struggle
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Recent Examples of struggles
Verb
Tagovailoa struggles with accuracy For the Dolphins, Tagovailoa struggled in this game. Daniel Popper, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025 The pieces are set to perfectly align in London against a Jets defense that blitzes all the time but struggles to properly pressure. Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025 Still, the city has had trouble recruiting and retaining officers, and struggles to contain lower-level crimes and open-air drug use. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025 Heizer's Cameron struggles to find his place in the world before enlisting in the Marines straight out of high school. Dory Jackson, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025 Nunes’ struggles to find appropriate support — legally and socially — leading her to create the eponymous NGO to help families facing similar issues while raising trans children. Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025 Natalia also struggles with her take on Chicken Kyiv in a roll, which the judges think is underbaked. Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025 This is a huge hit to the Eagles' defense, which already struggles with passing. James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025 And every time the kid struggles, the parent on the sideline would yell at the kid to critique their play and tell them what to do. Jonathan Carone, Parents, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
The offensive line, which was also subject to heavy criticism after the loss to the Gators, didn’t panic after the early struggles. Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025 Despite his offensive line’s struggles, Daniels had a half to remember. Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2025 Franklin took responsibility for Penn State's recent struggles. Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025 In correspondence that Khan made available to the investigators, his accuser appears to be very warm, prone to disclosure about her personal life and struggles, highly solicitous of Khan and his wife, and perhaps overeager. David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025 Just keep an eye on the run defense In a dominating win like Sunday’s, looking for any negatives is nitpicking, but the Cowboys’ run defense struggles are worth highlighting. Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Oct. 2025 Murphy has posted about his children on social media, celebrating birthdays and milestones, and even opening up about personal struggles, including Ford’s cancer journey. Jane Lacroix, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025 Through a historical and comparative lens, the film highlights parallels and contrasts in the two countries’ paths to statehood—while also examining how those founding moments echo in the present-day identity struggles of their citizens. Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for struggles
Verb
  • After one thousand years of isolation, Iblis is given temporary freedom when Ka-young (Bae Suzy), a small town mechanic who doesn’t experience empathy, literally stumbles upon his lamp during a vacation in the deserts of Dubai.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But there have been some career stumbles recently, a superhero disappointment in particular, that must have complicated Johnson’s conception of his remarkable career.
    Richard Lawson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The goalie, who strives to be in the Vezina Trophy conversation year after year and to lead the Wild to a Stanley Cup, loves Minnesota and loves playing for the Wild, in large part because of the defensive structure in front of him.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Yet Leto never shakes the role’s robotic nature, even as his character strives to become more human, and his acting partners struggle to play off that in a meaningful way.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Some Virginia elections have turned into battles over which candidate will be toughest on data centers; others elections have already been lost over them.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • As things get predictably dark for the struggling couple – and for some unlucky flies that get to experience her rage first-hand – their battles are frequently hilarious.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Deadly clashes erupted along Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, marking a new low in the countries’ ties since the Taliban retook power in 2021.
    J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Islamabad, Pakistan Reuters — Dozens of fighters were killed in overnight border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan, both sides said on Sunday, in the most serious fighting between the neighbours since the Taliban came to power in Kabul.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Unexpected Christmas the film revolves around the romantic entanglements, family secrets, old rivalries — and love — that ensue when the Scott family comes together for a holiday reunion.
    Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
  • According to a report from Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the creative direction for the San Diego show will feature the continuation of several major rivalries inside the two-ring steel cage.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With potential regulatory fights to come, this is a potential boon and is a way of circumventing content quotas and other obligations that European countries want to establish.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Near the entrance, carvings of boar hunts, bear fights and acrobats recall the spectacle that once filled the arena.
    Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These issues are not unique to the WNBA, as its affiliate league, the NBA, has weathered refereeing controversies and skirmishes over player pay for years.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • All these years later, Corigliano’s symphony has outlasted those skirmishes and emerged sounding fresh and exciting and powerful.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Even among those with magical abilities, familiar emotions and conflicts tend to surface.
    Karen Ostergren, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Still, viewing her objectively is impossible, according to Federico Navarrete, historian at Mexico’s National Autonomous University, because the race and class conflicts left by the conquest persist.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025

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