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ambitious

[am-bish-uhs] / æmˈbɪʃ əs /




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“I’ve never had the General Assembly aligned with me, and yet we put forward this ambitious agenda.”

From The Wall Street Journal

German director Mascha Schilinski’s astonishing second feature could scarcely be more ambitious as it offers an impressionistic portrait of four young women who take turns residing in the same house over roughly 110 years.

From Los Angeles Times

However, Graham Stringer, the MP for Blackley and Middleton South in Greater Manchester, said Burnham was "entitled to be ambitious but this isn't the right opportunity".

From BBC

“If I’m feeling ambitious, I’ll drive out to South Pasadena and revisit the sets for the original ‘Halloween’ movie, which serve as a beautiful reminder of Los Angeles’ filmmaking history,” Fuller says.

From Los Angeles Times

On Friday it picked To Lam Vietnam to be party chief, the post he currently holds, for the next five years, giving him another term to achieve his ambitious targets for Vietnam's economy.

From BBC