The phrase "struggles to realize" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's difficulty in understanding or achieving a particular goal or insight.
Example: "She struggles to realize her potential despite her many talents."
Alternatives: "finds it hard to understand" or "has difficulty grasping".
In his usual gorgeous prose, he spoke in "The Will To Believe" of our struggles to realize our ideals: If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals..
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"Peaky Blinders" is yet another show about a morally compromised, heterosexual white man who grapples with the results of his bold and even violent behavior as he struggles to realize his ambitions.
Talking about her struggle to realize Mrs. Warren, Ms. Jones said, "I'm really not a very good actress".
The successful struggle to realize them, and then to document their existence, seemed to satisfy the artist.
It was a bit of a mental struggle to realize that after nine summers, I was back in the same league, playing at the same local high school.
But in opera the music takes the lead, generating an imaginary landscape that directors and performers struggle to realize however they can.
But the central, most profound story is blacks' struggle to realize the most American of ideals, freedom and self-determination, in a hostile environment.
Nevertheless, according to the American historian John T. McNeill, "the history of the Christian Church from the first century to the 20th might be written in terms of its struggle to realize ecumenical unity".
"Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing Cornell University Pressss, $35), by Peter Eisenstadt, is an object lesson in the struggle to realize good intentions and then sustain them.
Harris's view is that the small-town Old West is struggling to realize itself: it's a civilization that hasn't been articulated yet; it has values but no words, no goods.
