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

In the 1960s and early ’70s, she is a plucky striver; in later decades, she is another famous author—book tours, awards, hobnobbing with luminaries, Democratic politics, remodeling homes in tony enclaves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

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

It takes an upper-middle-class striver like Matthew Macfadyen’s smiling, boneless Tom to derive any pleasure from the accouterments.

From New York Times • May 28, 2023

He was himself a striver, and he sought to instill that ethos in the school.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove