serious effort

Example Sentences

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“Management has suggested that AI compute could become a bottleneck within the next three to four years, implying that any serious effort to address this constraint would need to begin well ahead of that window.”

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

It seems highly unlikely that anyone can, or will make a serious effort to, route around her.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2024

It would take a serious effort — but in what’s become increasingly clear over the last two months, the Lakers are looking like a serious team.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2024

He marshals strong arguments about how specific Cold War liberals responded in these ways, he makes no serious effort to demonstrate how broadly these responses were shared.

From Salon • Sep. 17, 2023

One contingent in Birmingham seemed to make a serious effort to “leave the 1960s” and move forward to justice and equality for all citizens.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry