Example Sentences

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Europeans have striven this year to maintain U.S. backing for Ukraine—or at least blunt a reduction in U.S. support.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

While California lawmakers have striven to balance the need to support the cryptocurrency industry and protect consumers, recent legislation has hewed toward tighter state regulation.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2023

That so many of us have striven to protect each other by giving up nearly a year of togetherness is right and good, but it should be recognized as a sacrifice.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2020

For decades, members of civil society, including myself, have striven to ensure that the integrity of the remaining Jarawa and Onge territories and the no-contact policy for the Sentinelese are maintained and enforced.

From Scientific American • Nov. 26, 2018

I know only that I wished to recount it, and to speak of those whom I have known and who have striven for virtue and have perished.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson