ambition

"Burning ambition," declares the Daily Mirror, which notes Burnham will be the UK's seventh prime minister in 10 years.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

In an interview with The Times published late Sunday, Burnham set out his ambition for change, saying he wanted to draw a line under a decade of political turmoil.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

In an ironic twist, Nolan’s own ambition in adapting “The Odyssey” looks something like Odysseus’.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

That’s despite higher costs in 4Q, which led some in the market to question its ability to fund this ambition, analyst David Coates says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

His only apparent ambition, like Dave’s, was to be left alone; though, as Buck was afterward to learn, each of them possessed one other and even more vital ambition.

From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London

Its ambitions remain relatively small compared to the hundreds of billions of dollars and gigawatts of compute being built by American firms.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

Their hinterlands, Ms. Smith argues, are populated by those who suffer the force of these ambitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Spoon a modest amount of jam into each center; resist overfilling, since hot jam often seemingly has ambitions of its own.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

Kerr, always unapologetically bold in declaring his ambitions, announced he would target the world record in London four months before this historic run - and has worked relentlessly towards backing that up since.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 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