struggle
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Example Sentences
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To save face with her fellow pensioners, Mrs. Palfrey passes off a struggling writer she meets on the street as her grandson, only to draw confusingly close to him.
Don’t be afraid to express your opinions, but avoid engaging in power struggles with your boss.
The pressure is not just from one system struggling but from all three straining at once.
It also offers rare insight into a deep evolutionary struggle, where predators and prey continuously adapted in response to one another.
From Science Daily
Committee chair Lord Wood of Anfield told the BBC it was a "struggle to find where in government" there was a focus on ageing and the "transformational effects" it was going to have on people.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.