ambitious person

Example Sentences

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"He is quite an ambitious person and I think he will try to do it," he says.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2024

But for every ambitious person who has the goods and is prepared to pay his or her dues, there’s another who doesn’t and is content to play the con.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2019

For many people, he’s the kind of obnoxiously ambitious person whose greatest pleasure as a teenager was coming up with novel ways to obstruct Model UN resolutions.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2018

I would say she was an ambitious person.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2016

To his way of thinking, the Big Bang occurred after a single ambitious person seized power, perhaps in a coup.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann