How to Use team effort in a Sentence

team effort

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  • Rubio said he was honored to break the record but added that his stint was a team effort.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • This is a team effort — your role in this project is just as important as ours.
    — Diamy Wang, Detroit Free Press, 5 Aug. 2024
  • His scoring exploits in their 2012 Cup run set a tone for a true team effort.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Stopping McDavid must be a team effort, but the bulk of the work will fall on Doughty and Anderson.
    — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • That way, regardless of how many pieces there are, the process always feels like a team effort.
    — Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The rankings are a team effort: 75 panel members rate the courses on a 10-point scale.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
  • Every achievement has been the result of a team effort.
    — Richard Smirke, Billboard, 20 July 2023
  • Zumwalt said a team effort has led to the offensive outburst.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Powell described the work that has been done, and continues to be done, on this case as a team effort.
    — Anna Turning, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Shutting down Utah forward Alissa Pili was a team effort, and Williams played a big role in that.
    — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Sunny Hills used a team effort to quiet a Canyon offense that netted 20 goals in the first round of the playoffs.
    — Dan Albano, Orange County Register, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Her life today with husband Marco, 44, is much more of a team effort.
    — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
  • They will be motivated but need to put together a team effort to have a chance.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • While the perfect pit stop is a team effort, the wheel guns are an integral part of making wheel changes fast, reliable, and safe.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Stopping an elite caliber back is a complete team effort.
    — Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Young said his look was a team effort, spearheaded by his mother, who stood proudly next to him with his father.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Thanks in part to perhaps the Spartans’ best team effort and a 12-minute display of brute force in an absolute fistfight with Marquette.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Saban again referenced how the protection is a team effort and a lot of Texas’ pressure came from four- and three-man pressures.
    — Nick Alvarez | [email protected], al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • His death occurred despite a team effort to save him by lifeguards and beachgoers who formed a human chain to pull him from the water.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Shaq is said to be partnering with 50 Cent and Black-ish creator Kenya Barris with hopes that a team effort will be successful.
    — Vulture, 5 May 2023
  • The dominance was a team effort This year’s All-Star Race emphasized teamwork.
    — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2024
  • Management at Nordstrom has been a team effort since its early days.
    — Stephen Miller / Bloomberg, TIME, 20 May 2024
  • But coaches will preach that every victory is a team effort.
    — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In this sense, branding is a team effort—and like any team, a company's brand is more potent when its key players work together.
    — Aimee Meester, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The work is instead a team effort by tribal officials and groups of Wounded Knee descendants.
    — Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2023
  • However, while Thomas provided his trademark scoring spark in the first half, head coach Jacque Vaughn enjoyed a complete team effort at both ends of the court for most of this game.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
  • Have a conversation, and try to make digital media use a team effort.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Before the days of apps like Shazam, trying to identify an unfamiliar song was a team effort.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Given the short-handed nature of their pitching staff, advancing will require a team effort.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The performance Sunday was really a team effort, however, with the defense limiting Charlotte to seven first downs and two conversations in 15 tries on third or fourth down.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024

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