ambitious
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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
This involves launching a fleet of tanker vehicles which transfer cryogenic liquid methane and liquid oxygen across in sequence, a highly ambitious manoever has not yet been tested.
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
Now twenty-seven, he was too ambitious to remain forever a teacher or even the head of a school.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
Vocabulary lists containing ambitious
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 4
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