strove
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Both Haig and Maras strove to be as historically accurate as possible, even including archival footage from the war.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
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
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
There were some carers who strove to make the lives of residents better and who managed to carve out time in their busy days to engage but those moments were few and far between.
From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025
Around the time of his fourteenth birthday, with all the pressures of church and home uniting to drive him to the altar, he strove to appear more serious and therefore less conspicuous.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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