jockeyed in English

verb
1
struggle by every available means to gain or achieve something.
both men will be jockeying for the two top jobs
synonyms:maneuvereaseedgeworksteercompetecontendviestrugglefightscramblejostle
verb

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1. Catholic and Protestant rulers jockeyed for political supremacy and commercial gain.

2. He stared out into the desert while Bork Agitatedly jockeyed his flipper from side to side.

3. I stayed under the medical radar for a while but the last time I jockeyed was in Tokyo.

4. Each pilot wheeled out of the fictional sun, nosed down, and jockeyed his bouncing machine into a dive.

5. When the Bevatron’s first antimatter experiments started that summer, there was a mood of anticipation: Anxious experimenters jockeyed for time on the machine, principal investigators exchanged bets on whether or not Antiprotons would be produced, and others just looked on hopefully