striving

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The chain’s operations chief will take over as CEO of the world’s biggest pizza company, which is striving to reinvigorate sales.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

“The problem is that parts of it are still seeking easy and quick victories, or agreements with nice promises—momentary quiet instead of striving for victory, even if there are costs in the present,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026

Stefana disagrees, he says children and young people are spending so much time and money striving towards a look, an aesthetic, that only exists in the digital world, not in reality.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Without any products on the market, Fulcrum Therapeutics had been striving to commercialize its experimental drug for sickle cell disease, but those plans appear to now be on hold.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

He had represented the limitless possibilities in us all by living his life, striving for those dreams that seemed to elude the neighborhood year after year.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez