endeavoring

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Endeavoring to drive safely — and to decarbonize industries — needs to be the focus, but airbags and seat belts are important too, and they’re still saving lives.

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2024

Endeavoring to access Langley’s notebooks, she cozies up to his niece, a down-at-the-heels dealer in antiquarian books who isn’t above employing a little Lee Israel-style hocus-pocus to produce fake inventory for a credulous clientele.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2019

Initially happy to score me, Endeavoring now to ignore me, He paid me a sum To stay quiet, the bum.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2018

Endeavoring to explore the phenomenon, I hit the boulevard with photographer Christina Paige, and I think her portraits implicitly deliver some helpful hints on proper green-pants deployment.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2013

Endeavoring at once to regain the distance lost by the drifting berg, we sought a way along the shores.

From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.