ambition
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Bean impressively captures Wanda’s determined grind, but it’s Asante Blackk’s delicate combination of anxiety and ambition as her cousin Lamar, a musical prodigy, that locked me in to the first episode.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
He has also retired the 10% U.S. market-share ambition inherited from Diess.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Joe said he was fulfilling a long-held ambition.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
The burning ambition remains, however, as proved by the manner in which they have attacked the market to replenish their squad for a title tilt.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Almost deliberately, I’d numbed myself somewhat to my ambition, stepping back in moments when I’d normally step forward.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
But the very glaciers and mountains giving Nepal this massive natural advantage are succumbing to global warming - and last Wednesday's deadly floods have laid bare the risks to the nation's hydropower ambitions.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
But that is changing, and lately the company’s lounge ambitions have been one of the worst-kept secrets in aviation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Ocean Way arrives after the collapse of the LA Jazz Festival, which had bold ambitions for a 40,000-capacity set on Dockweiler Beach yet fell apart under permit and financial stress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Jollibee said the Hong Kong exchange would provide access to a broad base of global and regional investors, making it well suited to support a business with ambitions that extend beyond Asia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
It was not an erotic love, but a love of shared madness, of conversations that were electric and boundless, of ambitions that ran beyond realities.*
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing ambition
Nothing But the Truth
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