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  • verb Present participle of struggle.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity

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Examples

  • With its top two scorers - Anthony Roberson and Matt Walsh - once again struggling from the field, Florida got no closer than eight points thereafter.

    USATODAY.com 2004

  • : The term struggling writer clearly does not apply to the scribes who rank high on the rundown of 2009's highest-paid authors.

    Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2010

  • In the newer filing, dated July 14, the word "struggling" was changed to "dealing," and a line about how certain "investments in growth" had in the past "turned a healthy forecasted quarterly profit into a sizable loss" was deleted entirely.

    unknown title 2011

  • In the newer filing, dated July 14, the word "struggling" was changed to "dealing," and a line about how certain "investments in growth" had in the past "turned a healthy forecasted quarterly profit into a sizable loss" was deleted entirely.

    unknown title 2011

  • In the newer filing, dated July 14, the word "struggling" was changed to "dealing," and a line about how certain "investments in growth" had in the past "turned a healthy forecasted quarterly profit into a sizable loss" was deleted entirely.

    unknown title 2011

  • In the newer filing, dated July 14, the word "struggling" was changed to "dealing," and a line about how certain "investments in growth" had in the past "turned a healthy forecasted quarterly profit into a sizable loss" was deleted entirely.

    unknown title 2011

  • In the newer filing, dated July 14, the word "struggling" was changed to "dealing," and a line about how certain "investments in growth" had in the past "turned a healthy forecasted quarterly profit into a sizable loss" was deleted entirely.

    unknown title 2011

  • In the newer filing, dated July 14, the word "struggling" was changed to "dealing," and a line about how certain "investments in growth" had in the past "turned a healthy forecasted quarterly profit into a sizable loss" was deleted entirely.

    unknown title 2011

  • In the newer filing, dated July 14, the word "struggling" was changed to "dealing," and a line about how certain "investments in growth" had in the past "turned a healthy forecasted quarterly profit into a sizable loss" was deleted entirely.

    unknown title 2011

  • In the newer filing, dated July 14, the word "struggling" was changed to "dealing," and a line about how certain "investments in growth" had in the past "turned a healthy forecasted quarterly profit into a sizable loss" was deleted entirely.

    unknown title 2011

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