Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To contrive.

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Examples

  • The best Canadian athletes trive to play hockey from a young age, while the best Americans are playing football, basketball or baseball.

    Matthew Yglesias » For the Gold 2010

  • Isreal trive on presenting and benefits from presenting itself as this little, poor victim that is incircled by millions of angry fantics bent on its destruction.

    Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children? « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

  • Are they growable with considerable effort (like here in Arizona) or do they trive without much work there?

    gardening climate? 2004

  • Southern African Development Community that the "spirit of co-operation and political tolerance ... will continue to trive among all parties and role players in the post election phase," he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • But then came Bush's transition sentence -- "The qualities of courage and compassion that we s trive for in America also determine our conduct abroad" -- and I suspect that even the president's most skeptical critics would agree that from that point on, he was masterful...

    01/26/2003 - 02/02/2003 Jacob T. Levy 2003

  • But then came Bush's transition sentence -- "The qualities of courage and compassion that we s trive for in America also determine our conduct abroad" -- and I suspect that even the president's most skeptical critics would agree that from that point on, he was masterful...

    Archive 2003-01-26 Jacob T. Levy 2003

  • But then came Bush's transition sentence -- "The qualities of courage and compassion that we s trive for in America also determine our conduct abroad" -- and I suspect that even the president's most skeptical critics would agree that from that point on, he was masterful...

    Jacob T. Levy Jacob T. Levy 2003

  • For meaningful development in our province to trive, peace is not just an option but it is an obligation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • For meaningful development in our province to trive, peace is not just an option but it is an obligation.

    STATEMENT ON JOINT ANC/IFP 1000-ASIDE MEETING 2001

  • Teach timely to traverse the thing that thou 'trive, and so on.

    In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892

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