How to Use concerted in a Sentence

concerted

adjective
  • They made a concerted effort to make her feel welcome.
  • Last but not least, there must be a concerted effort to reach out to mentors and peers.
    Muhammad Asif, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • There has also been a concerted effort to highlight the causes of despair in young adults.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Hailey Bieber has made a concerted effort to keep much of her private life with husband Justin Bieber out of the public eye.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2022
  • That integration, part of a years-long concerted effort by settlers, is hardly questioned by Israelis.
    Tia Goldenberg, ajc, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Shivers and Henderson will still be the primary backs, but the staff intends to make a concerted effort to make Lucas part of the game plan.
    Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Such concerted action is nowadays typically organized through a labor union.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The inequities built into the health care system mean employers must make a concerted effort to address racial health disparities within their benefit plans.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The health system ran at a negative operating margin through the first quarter of the year, which by the second quarter had started to improve thanks to concerted effort, Costello said.
    Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Oct. 2022
  • It's been a concerted effort with all of us and it's just been a lot of fun.
    Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
  • But a concerted push for such a change has not appeared.
    Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 13 July 2023
  • The bad blood between the two men goes back at least to the fall of 2023, when Vance began a concerted effort to block U.S. aid for Ukraine.
    Simon Shuster, TIME, 16 July 2024
  • Both have led concerted diplomatic efforts to stop the war over the past two months.
    Samy Magdy, ajc, 18 June 2023
  • Both led concerted diplomatic efforts to stop the war over the past two months.
    Samy Magdy, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2023
  • What the agents uncovered was, the indictment says, a concerted effort to hide the extent of Trump’s stash from the White House.
    Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023
  • Last year, the Fed hiked its rate to a 22-year high of about 5.4% to extend its concerted drive to conquer high inflation.
    Christopher Rugaber, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Walz has made a concerted effort to challenge the Cardinals to play with more grit.
    Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The Sparks have made a concerted effort to push their players into the public eye.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
  • In the early 2000s, there was a concerted effort to ensure that all students could read.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The flurry of line drives was the product of extra time in the cages and a concerted effort to be aggressive early in counts.
    Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
  • These drivers show a concerted effort to move up the trust chain, starting at least this past July.
    Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
  • And there has been a concerted effort by the Trump team to paint the Kennedy black sheep as more of a left-wing concern than a centrist alternative.
    Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 June 2024
  • With the song's utterly swoon-worthy lyrics, Mars would have had to make a concerted effort for this video not to ooze with romance.
    Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Martinez said there has been more of a concerted effort on the NFL’s part to reach more communities.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Since then, Mixon has made a concerted effort to put the incident in his past and rebuild his identity.
    Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Garner and Affleck make a concerted effort to keep their children largely out of the spotlight.
    Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 12 June 2023
  • Today, its draw is still strong, thanks to its stunning landscape, culinary feats, and concerted effort to preserve the land.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2023
  • The Cavaliers got a concerted effort from 80% of their starting five.
    Robert Fenbers, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Biden pressure: President Biden is facing the most concerted effort yet by leading Democrats seeking to force him out of the presidential race amid concerns over his advanced age and sluggish poll numbers.
    Adrián Blanco, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
  • Reagan didn’t visit Minnesota until near the campaign’s end, and a more concerted effort there likely would have won him the state, considering his popularity nationally.
    David Mark, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Aug. 2024

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