How to Use concerted in a Sentence

concerted

adjective
  • They made a concerted effort to make her feel welcome.
  • But each of them contain one common thread: a concerted, explicit disdain for Black women.
    Nicole Young, ELLE, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Secondly, there’s been a concerted effort to nourish a local ecosystem.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Without a concerted effort to ensure they are fairly distributed, those most in need of them will continue to be left behind.
    Caroline Behr and Michael L. Barnett, STAT, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Participants seem to cooperate with police, who have made no concerted effort to evict them.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • But there's been a concerted effort by the left wing in America this time around to make Americans feel ashamed of their history.
    Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2022
  • That false consensus is what lawmakers seek to preserve in their concerted efforts to suppress Black history in the classroom.
    Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Smart has made a more concerted effort this season at being a floor leader instead of an indiscriminate chucker of 3-pointers.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The most important thing for the Cavs is learning from this loss, responding properly, and making a concerted effort to not repeat the mistake.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Kikoler suggests a concerted effort to stop importing resources from Xinjiang, such as the polysilicon used to make solar panels.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2022
  • But there is a growing conviction that a more concerted effort is required if corporations are to not to miss opportunities and so become vulnerable to start-ups.
    Roger Trapp, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • It's been a concerted effort with all of us and it's just been a lot of fun.
    Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
  • So when the rebels pressed ahead this time, there was no concerted effort to stop them.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
  • But a concerted push for such a change has not appeared.
    Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 13 July 2023
  • Last but not least, there must be a concerted effort to reach out to mentors and peers.
    Muhammad Asif, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The bad blood between the two men goes back at least to the fall of 2023, when Vance began a concerted effort to block U.S. aid for Ukraine.
    Simon Shuster, TIME, 16 July 2024
  • Both have led concerted diplomatic efforts to stop the war over the past two months.
    Samy Magdy, ajc, 18 June 2023
  • Both led concerted diplomatic efforts to stop the war over the past two months.
    Samy Magdy, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2023
  • It’s time for a concerted effort to prevent, treat, and maybe even cure long Covid.
    Ryan Prior and Kimberly Knackstedt, STAT, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The Hall of Fame Village is making a concerted effort to bring in non-sports events to the Canton venue.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 10 June 2022
  • But there has to be a concerted effort from the company’s C-suite as well, to make sure the board is caught up with AI.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2024
  • There was no concerted effort to make the films less silly.
    Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Oct. 2024
  • How much of this was part of some concerted effort on Juul's part?
    Wired, 15 July 2022
  • What the agents uncovered was, the indictment says, a concerted effort to hide the extent of Trump’s stash from the White House.
    Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
  • Last year, the Fed hiked its rate to a 22-year high of about 5.4% to extend its concerted drive to conquer high inflation.
    Christopher Rugaber, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Walz has made a concerted effort to challenge the Cardinals to play with more grit.
    Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The Sparks have made a concerted effort to push their players into the public eye.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
  • In the early 2000s, there was a concerted effort to ensure that all students could read.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The flurry of line drives was the product of extra time in the cages and a concerted effort to be aggressive early in counts.
    Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
  • The concerted effort to defend Hegseth won over President-elect Trump, who has in recent days offered public support for his pick to lead the Pentagon.
    Brett Samuels, The Hill, 12 Dec. 2024

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