serious effort
Example Sentences
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“Management has suggested that AI compute could become a bottleneck within the next three to four years, implying that any serious effort to address this constraint would need to begin well ahead of that window.”
From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026
It seems highly unlikely that anyone can, or will make a serious effort to, route around her.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 2024
It would take a serious effort — but in what’s become increasingly clear over the last two months, the Lakers are looking like a serious team.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2024
“It’s harder to stay healthy,” he says — and doing so involves serious effort.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2023
About 1950, Dr. Knipling launched a serious effort to turn insect sterilization into a weapon that would wipe out a major insect enemy of livestock in the South, the screw-worm fly.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
