strive

They held that the highest and most noble aspiration in life was to surpass all others, to strive to be the best in all things.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

So whether they end it with you or vice versa, that’s an outcome that you should actually strive for if the person isn’t a good fit.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Everyone has their own thing ... we complement each other. We just push each other to strive for greatness.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

"Being at this club, you've got to strive to win," said Carrick.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

I strove to wake, to brush aside those pathetic flutterings, but strive as I would I could not...at last I sat up, sleep and dream alike banished, wide awake now.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Being a top-notched defender is what James strives to be for the Lakers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Sonos CMO Colleen DeCourcy is surrounding herself with creative “player-coaches” and opening a “creative cultural space” in New York as she strives to move the brand past memories of its botched app update.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Those who know him well - or covered his playing career for many years - will describe him as a curious person who strives to do everything to the best of his ability.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 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

“A town that strives to make such a good first impression must surely be a friendly place,” she thought.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

"It is time for me to join the party which best represents the views of myself and the people of St Helens in order to act on the improvements I have long strived for."

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026

“I have always strived to adhere to company policies and provide the very best service to my clients,” he said in a statement earlier this month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

To produce the kind of landscape effects Olmsted strived to create required not months but years, even decades.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

In the era of high-risk high-reward batting, where contributions were not measured in milestones, Samson became the folk hero who strove only for high impact and was rewarded with consistency by the cricketing gods.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 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

Hodge calls the Cornell-educated actor “a genius” and says she strove to pull Riri’s dialogue up to the level of Thorne’s intellect, rather than the other way around.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025

I strove to wake, to brush aside those pathetic flutterings, but strive as I would I could not...at last I sat up, sleep and dream alike banished, wide awake now.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Europeans have striven this year to maintain U.S. backing for Ukraine—or at least blunt a reduction in U.S. support.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

Sanders stressed that his office has striven to improve its crisis response by incorporating mental health co-responders, adding that dashboard and body-worn cameras help provide transparency.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

While California lawmakers have striven to balance the need to support the cryptocurrency industry and protect consumers, recent legislation has hewed toward tighter state regulation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2023

And with what had might he had striven for tenure!

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

However, Guest warns striving for a sculpted stomach could "feed into people's insecurities".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

It is striving to begin delivering vehicles to European customers by the end of 2027.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

In 2004, Mr. Nordlinger wrote an article in National Review in which he called Indian-Americans “entrepreneurial, hard-working, striving, traditionalist, family-oriented, religious, assimilationist, patriotic”—therefore natural GOP voters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

The “Beef” quartet — Mulligan and Oscar Isaac playing striving, bickering millennials, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeney as their younger, equally desperate counterparts — split their submissions between lead and supporting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

He detected the strength of the gossamer threads of affection that sometimes grew between a pair of young men or among a boatload of them striving honestly to do their best.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown