ambition
Example Sentences
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There are others, though, whose own zeal and blind ambition are obvious.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026
With its bed made just so, “Exit 8” has a refreshing ambition: It wants to be both a purgatory and an advancement in form.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Speaking ahead of the manifesto launch, Rhun ap Iorwerth said Wales had "enormous, untapped potential" but had lacked a "government with the ambition and the plan to realise it".
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
Musk hasn’t been shy about aligning his companies to achieve his life’s ambition of building human civilization on Mars.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing ambition
Nothing But the Truth
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