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striving
 
NOUN:1. A vying with others for victory or supremacy: battle, competition, contest, corrivalry, race, rivalry, strife, struggle, tug of war, war, warfare. See CONFLICT. 2. The use of energy to do something: effort, endeavor, exertion, pain (used in plural), strain1, struggle, trouble, while. Informal : elbow grease. See WORK.
 
 
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