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Discover LudwigThe word 'drive' is correct and usable in written English
It is a commonly used verb that means to operate or control a vehicle, or to move or travel in a particular direction or manner. Example: I drove my car to work this morning. The family decided to go for a drive in the countryside. She often drives her kids to school in the mornings.
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Drive
noun
Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
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Can you drive?
What I couldn't do on my own, however, was to drive a bargain like Yvonne could.
"The defendant committed himself to al-Qaida's conspiracy to kill Americans, and he worked to drive other people to that conspiracy".
"No single market should drive the growth and composition of a country's incoming postgraduate body," said Zainab Malik, director of research for British Council education intelligence.
Every day I drive my car, sometimes I get tickets.
"I just drive and ask people along the way; that's how you learn the roads here".
This is not to judge disadvantaged students by a different standard; but by the same standard, just through intelligent use of data to drive lower offers rather than merely "flagging" a candidate for closer assessment.
Eva Clarke continues the story of her mother's survival, and her own birth, to a rapt young audience, after which we drive through late winter sun to Eva's home in Cambridge, to which her mother recently moved from Cardiff.
It's an effective way to drive the point home: we'd just rather not think about it.
"I drive trucks, that's what I want to do.
The plots are boring, the characters dunces, and I find the politics that drive them – from sexual to geopolitical - frequently reprehensible.
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