ambition
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Beijing has been unusually explicit about the ambition.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
President Trump expanded his diplomatic ambition, seeking an Iran end-of-war agreement and normalized Israel-Middle East relations.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
Its relative shapelessness, along with its use of a ghostwriter, doesn’t bolster her literary credentials, but its existence points to Monroe’s ambition to have them.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
Tribe has made no secret of his ambition to play for England, and as the selectors try to find a long-term opening combination he has quietly gone about stating his case.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
Her only political ambition was to “reign in the heart of my husband. That is my throne and there I aspire to be absolute.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing ambition
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