strive

When government agencies release the latest data on inflation, employment or crop yields, they strive to make it available to everyone at once.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

At the same time, designers strive to make the chips themselves ever smaller.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

The university’s schools strive to offer all students a quality education, according to Ames.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

Why they wouldn’t prioritize Brink’s development alongside winning as they strive to snap a previously unthinkable five-year playoff drought.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

“I want it to be a shining city on a hill—an example of what a Roosevelt community should strive to be.”

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

Still, he strives, with Sisyphean defiance, to break free.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

"We will also have to close some programmes," he added, saying "output with the highest audience value and impact" would be prioritised as the BBC strives to be "simpler and faster".

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

"He wants us to be better, and that's exactly what I, my family, and I hope every single other person here strives to do every single day - make this world a better place."

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

A promise for what this country strives to stand for.

From Slate ● May 22, 2026

Her given name was Nomzamo, which means one who strives or imdergoes trials, a name as prophetic as my own.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Gellar also praised their fans for allowing them to enjoy a very private life at home with their children, noting that they have always strived to keep their more intimate family life behind closed doors.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026

But last July, the government said it had been informed by the US defense department that the deliveries to Switzerland would be delayed as Washington strived to provide more support for Ukraine.

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026

World Rugby, the WRU and the RFU previously said that they "constantly strived to safeguard" future, current and former players.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026

Musicians strived to create music that was different and to stand out at talent contests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

She considered herself a passionate observer who strived to understand the wonders God had created.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

SKW posted losses three years in a row as the country strove to wean itself off cheap Russian energy supplies.

From Barron's ● May 3, 2026

And, like you said, the pitfalls that you strove to avoid as you were coming up in this business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

Less attention has been paid to the ways in which enslaved people strove for emancipation through acts of resistance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

The City of Bulawayo, led by mayor David Coltart, said Mr Moyo would be remembered as an "iconic leader ... and creative" who "strove to champion the arts" in the city and beyond.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025

In the decades that followed, Colored people strove to educate themselves— organizing, creating self-help groups, running for office, fighting to change laws, founding schools, and so on.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

He has striven to place Cohere as a sovereign alternative in both the European and Asian markets.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Good fellowship was, if not assumed, then striven for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

“Memorial” does for Lin’s legacy what she has striven to do in her work — invite people to consider uncomfortable truths.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

“Country music has always striven to appear as a nice person,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

I know only that I wished to recount it, and to speak of those whom I have known and who have striven for virtue and have perished.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

“It’s hard to imagine big tech companies are truly striving to become known as successful apparel brands,” said Simeon Siegel, senior managing director at the investment bank Guggenheim Securities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

To children, “Spirited Away” is about a little girl striving to find a way back home, a premise as familiar as “The Wizard of Oz.”

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

As the country celebrates 250 years since independence, many Americans and immigrants know the daily reality of chasing that dream -- through countless disappointments and endless striving.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

This impressionistic novel intimately evokes the squalor, fear and fervent striving of Depression-era New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

“Well of course no one’s accusing me—” “Don’t argue so much,” his voice tried for a hard compromise, full of warning and yet striving to pass unnoticed by the others.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles