endeavored
Example Sentences
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Even as they shared a stage to more efficiently pitch advertisers, the networks endeavored to stand apart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Lam endeavored to merge his life and work, to create a personal vocabulary with universal reach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
In her monumental novel, Babb endeavored to give these people back their names.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2024
She added that the agency has endeavored to process naturalization petitions within six months for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
He endeavored to trap and nourish the impression in order to predict, and perhaps even control, what incident would occur next, but the afflatus melted away unproductively, as he had known beforehand it would.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
