struggle
Usage
Example Sentences
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However his struggles with hearing meant "his family worried greatly about his future prospects".
From BBC
When she joined the club, she had never done cross country before and the club struggled to get the four women needed to make up a team.
From BBC
"Nobody else has to believe in me, but me. And for anybody that's struggling, you can get through anything."
From Barron's
While many people report breakthrough ideas emerging from dreams, researchers have struggled to test this phenomenon because dreams are difficult to control in a lab setting.
From Science Daily
"The team is maybe not sick, but it is struggling a lot. When it happens again and again like this, it's difficult."
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.