Crossword-Solution: STRIVING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Striving | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Strive |
| Striving | - | a. & n. from Strive. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “STRIVING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Giving it 110%, so to speak | 1 answer |
| Making real effort | 1 answer |
| an effortful attempt to attain a goal | 1 answer |
| Endeavoring | 2 answers |
| Doing battle | 2 answers |
| CONATION | 2 answers |
| Trying hard | 3 answers |
| Goal-oriented activity | 3 answers |
| contending | 4 answers |
| Working hard | 9 answers |
| nisus | 9 answers |
| Exertion | 40 answers |
| Endeavor | 47 answers |
| Enterprise | 58 answers |
| seek | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STRIVING (5)
All the land was full of people, Restless, struggling, toiling, striving, Speaking many tongues, yet feeling But one heart-beat in their bosoms.
While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: “Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?” The Wolves and the Sheep “WHY SHOULD there always be this fear and slaughter between us?” said the Wolves to the Sheep.
Nor did it quit me when, late at night, I sat in the deserted parlour, lighted only by the glimmering coal-fire and the moon, striving to picture forth imaginary scenes, which, the next day, might flow out on the brightening page in many-hued description.
They opened a new world to me.” Night after night he went to hear them, striving to reproduce the quality of their tone upon his violin.
DuBois in a struggle for leadership, he confirmed the Association's emphasis on striving for an integrated society.
Quotes with STRIVING (3)
When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do…
The striving of humanity for knowledge and truth [can] not be suppressed. The growth of the spirit [is]an essential part of Creation; it was planned like the growth of the body, of the plants and animals and people - every living thing that God had created.
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1975–2024).