striver
Example Sentences
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I’m the first to admit that it hasn’t been easy saying goodbye to the career striver I have been for more than five decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
The ding on the movie is that Timothée Chalamet’s self-centered striver isn’t that different from Adam Sandler’s diamond hawker in “Uncut Gems.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
Rebekah, a corporate striver with a mercenary streak, is beholden to her first-born boy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
We first got to know Santos as a man who fabricated his entire biography, ostensibly to present himself as an electorally viable striver.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2023
He was himself a striver, and he sought to instill that ethos in the school.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
