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strove
verb as in try for, exert oneself
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Example Sentences
Grant and his eugenicist comrades strove to make America’s public policies as brutal as the racial science’s coldhearted facts.
Both deployed the "Southern strategy," described as such because it strove to appeal to white Southern voters who opposed racial integration following the Civil Rights Movement's success.
As rescuers worked, they strove to “reduce vibration and personnel close to the trench,” to avoid causing more dirt to cave in, he said.
The former president's own pick for vice president, JD Vance, once called Trump a "moral disaster" and possibly "America's Hitler," but strove to make amends since running for a Senate seat in 2022.
Just as the Gladyshev team had done, O’Donnell and his collaborators strove to tease out signs of epigenetic modification in the cells of pregnant people.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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