endeavoring

verb

Definition of endeavoringnext
present participle of endeavor
1
as in striving
to devote serious and sustained effort the trapped climber endeavored mightily to get the boulder to budge

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2
as in trying
to make an effort to do our club is forever endeavoring to find ways to raise more money for activities

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for endeavoring
  1. striving
  2. trying
  3. laboring
  4. attempting
  5. struggling
  6. working
Verb
  • This means going beyond policies and quotas, striving instead for cultural norms where differences are not only accepted but celebrated.
    Mo Hamzian, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • By contrast, the sneaker trends that have defined the latter half of this year–and those forecast for next–suggest many people are striving for anti-mainstream designs.
    Alice Cary, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of striving
Verb
  • New York police on Monday were trying to determine why someone set a woman ablaze board a train in Brooklyn in a fatal attack drawing outrage from city and state leaders who have been laboring to make the trains safer.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The holdups come during one of the busiest travel times of the year, frustrating hundreds of customers trying to get home for the holidays.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of trying
Verb
  • New York police on Monday were trying to determine why someone set a woman ablaze board a train in Brooklyn in a fatal attack drawing outrage from city and state leaders who have been laboring to make the trains safer.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Earlier this year the agency adopted new heat protections that apply to indoor workers, expanding safety measures for more than a million workers laboring in warehouses, kitchens, laundry rooms and other hot indoor settings.
    Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of laboring
Verb
  • The footage released by James’ office shows another NYPD vehicle ahead of Perez attempting a similar blocking maneuver that Williams narrowly avoided.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 23 Dec. 2024
  • While attempting to conceal the affair, Romy weaponizes both her womanhood and her CEO status.
    Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of attempting
Verb
  • In those 1930s films, the fast-talking lovers and schemers acknowledged the struggling world around them, if quietly (few films beyond Gold Diggers of 1933 made explicit reference to economic turmoil).
    Eric Kohn, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Ordinary Americans also work for league media arms such as the NFL Network, which last year conducted layoffs, or their partners, including regional sports networks that are struggling to keep pace.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of struggling
Verb
  • Or pushing through with friendships that aren’t really working anymore, and maybe never did.
    Daisy Jones, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2024
  • After 16 years working with world's largest brands and acts, Stirling is now a creative director with Tvg Hospitality.
    Matthew MacConnell, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of working
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