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“I strive to make people forget me as a woman and see me just as someone who knows her job,” she said in an interview.

Will it strive for purity or aim for as big a tent as possible?

And if we are going to have to live with our past and current racism, then we must strive for undetectable levels of infection.

These approaches are critical as they strive to fix the innate issue: spinal cord damage.

We live in a world bombarded by images of skinny women that are presented as the ideal body type to strive for.

Strive to speak or sing fluently without breaking the quality of tone used.

I know I strive after the unattainable, but still every year I get nearer and nearer to the goal.

Here again the first thing necessary is a clear vision of the goal towards which we are to strive.

A few hundreds of Europeans would strive to keep at bay tens of thousands of eager rebels.

But the sailors plunge into the very fire itself; entering the houses, they strive to rescue the contents until the roofs fall in.

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On this page you'll find 130 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to strive, such as: aim, endeavor, go all out, seek, tackle, and assay.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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