ambition
Example Sentences
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What’s being asked for is competitive balance, and while it sounds nice, that’s an ambition that requires a healthy amount of collectivism and sacrifice, and leads to my last point here:
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Isak looked well placed to quickly realise that ambition with Liverpool, the then Premier League champions.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
How did you land on the professions that your characters would be pursuing and what did you want to say about ambition at this stage of life?
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
The presidency is a skin suit that barely conceals this ambition.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
Jo’s ambition was to do something very splendid.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Vocabulary lists containing ambition
Nothing But the Truth
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