struggle
Usage
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.
It had a challenging mandate: to develop top-line aircraft engines, a technology China had long struggled to master.
When Sisyphus’s rock tumbles back after all that struggle, I can’t imagine him as happy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.