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ambitious

[am-bish-uhs] / æmˈbɪʃ əs /




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Miels reiterated the company’s ambitious growth targets—with or without Nuvalent—promising to increase annual sales to more than $53 billion by 2031, up more than 20% from where sales are now.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

The flagship project had been billed as an ambitious and unparalleled military partnership.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Smart, ambitious and dogged, she is not burdened by a dark past or traumatic pain or the generally dour outlook that plague so many of her peers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

"The French authorities will continue to encourage our companies and our armed forces to seek out the ways and means to pursue ambitious European projects that are consistent with our national security interests."

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

To throw in the face of the father who was so ambitious for presidents and geniuses in the family, the German nobody turned out to be a world-class chemist.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez




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