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struggle

[struhg-uhl] / ˈstrʌg əl /






Usage

What are other ways to say struggle? The noun struggle, when referring to a fight or contest of any kind, implies vigorous bodily effort or violent exertion: a hand-to-hand struggle. A brush is a brief encounter or skirmish: a brush with the law. Clash implies a direct and sharp collision between opposing parties, efforts, interests, etc.: a clash of opinions.

Example Sentences

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Without an overall strategy, he said, the government would "struggle to address some of those issues and have a clear-headed view about what we might do to improve things".

From BBC

"When it struggles, the weight should not rest solely on the producer, who shoulders risk from the very beginning."

From Barron's

As the engines ran, the smell came back, along with plumes of a fog deep enough that he struggled to see beyond the first 15 rows.

From The Wall Street Journal

It had a challenging mandate: to develop top-line aircraft engines, a technology China had long struggled to master.

From The Wall Street Journal

When Sisyphus’s rock tumbles back after all that struggle, I can’t imagine him as happy.

From The Wall Street Journal