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ambition

[am-bish-uhn] / æmˈbɪʃ ən /




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But the Kushners’ empire, like Trump’s, was underwritten by years of dealing in much more modestly ambitioned properties.

From New York Times • May 23, 2017

We must not judge them by the rules of the normally ambitioned.

From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2010

Hyacinth Halvey: In danger to be linked and wed—I never ambitioned it—with a woman would want me to be earning through every day of the year.

From New Irish Comedies by Gregory, Lady

The nocturnal conference of Mirabeau with the queen, in the park of Saint Cloud, was ambitioned by his rival; but Mirabeau sold, Barnave gave, himself.

From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.

I am in possession of all the fame I ever hoped or ambitioned.

From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by Paston, George




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