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Covering careers and the labor market, I endeavored to meet job seekers in all 50 states, hoping it would help me understand why many people felt so dim about their futures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
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
Now I’ve endeavored to be like an old dog who can learn new tricks, so humility has been the watchword for my second decade of marriage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025
The best of them map new roads through this universe that call upon mature, thoughtful perspectives differing extensively from what Lucas endeavored to do two and half decades ago.
From Salon ● May 25, 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
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