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
Instead — as the bandwagon effect predicts — colleges hopped aboard without making a serious effort to determine whether the wagon was rolling in the right direction.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2024
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
