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Princeton's WordNet

  1. striving, nisus, pains, strainnoun

    an effortful attempt to attain a goal

Wiktionary

  1. strivingnoun

    Effort.

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  1. striving

    Striving refers to the act of making great efforts or exerting oneself to achieve a particular goal, purpose, or ideal. It involves showing dedication, intense hard work, perseverance, and determination in overcoming challenges or obstacles to reach a desired outcome.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Striving

    of Strive

  2. Striving

    a. & n. from Strive

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of striving in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of striving in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of striving in a Sentence

  1. Laurie Santos:

    This is a really challenging time, and that means that students need to learn new strategies to protect their mental health, our goal is to equip students with scientifically validated strategies for living a more satisfying life, while also creating opportunities for high-striving low-income students and students of color to demonstrate college-readiness.

  2. Hillary Clinton:

    I will be a president for The Democrats ', Republicans, independents, for the struggling, the striving the successful. … for all Americans together.

  3. Rich Cook:

    Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

  4. W. E. B. Du Bois:

    A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

  5. Kailee Scales:

    We are walking into the 2020 election cycle with eyes wide open to the fact that international and domestic actors are striving to undermine our organizing, and we are not going to let that happen.

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