Strivings rhymes with:
carvings, cravings, engravings, irving's, leavings, levings, livings, lovings, misgivings, rovings, savings, savings', savings's, servings, shavings, weavings
Strivings sounds like:
starving, sterbenz, strafing, strapping, stravinsky, stravinsky's, stripping, striving, struebing