ambition
Example Sentences
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Beijing has been unusually explicit about the ambition.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
The orchestra’s vast ambition reaches into — and often reinvents — music education, pop music, film music, Latino culture, visual arts, theater, architecture, classical music, opera and avant-garde new music.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
At this point in a career, I feel like the question is, where do you get the motivation, ambition and creativity to do anything?
From The Wall Street Journal • 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
It was a splendid marriage and he thought of ambition only, never of love or of gratitude.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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