as in ambitious
having a strong desire for personal advancement
she's the most hard-driving malpractice lawyer I've ever seen
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The 28-year-old has quickly become a critical performer with his hard-driving skating and tenacious mindset.
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Eric Stephens, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
Momma Rose, Lee’s hard-driving mater familias, and the archetype against which any mother with a child in showbusiness has since been compared.
—Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
Soto, represented by hard-driving super agent Scott Boras, has shown no indication of offering charity to his new employer like Ohtani did.
—David K. Li, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
In this context, the classic image of the focused and hard-driving sales quota buster has changed to be totally team collaborative, internally and externally, in this age of high technology, rapid change, and total customer personalization.
—Martin Zwilling, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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Eric Stephens, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
Momma Rose, Lee’s hard-driving mater familias, and the archetype against which any mother with a child in showbusiness has since been compared.
—Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2024
Soto, represented by hard-driving super agent Scott Boras, has shown no indication of offering charity to his new employer like Ohtani did.
—David K. Li, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
In this context, the classic image of the focused and hard-driving sales quota buster has changed to be totally team collaborative, internally and externally, in this age of high technology, rapid change, and total customer personalization.
—Martin Zwilling, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for hard-driving
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“Hard-driving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard-driving. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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