aspiration

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The book established many of the themes that continue through Rowbottom’s fiction: women at odds with their bodies, mothers and daughters struggling toward one another, beauty as both aspiration and burden.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

Lincoln did not treat the Revolution as an open-ended aspiration; he gave it a moral center, insisting that equality was not an optional inheritance but the nation’s core identity.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

However, if a poem leads you to a state of understanding, of awareness, and above all, aspiration, then you start to think about a different life, you want to live differently.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

Voters may value welfare - but increasingly ask what comes after it: jobs, wages, mobility, aspiration.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

Making a calculation that was short on information and long on aspiration, Shin told himself he had a ninety percent chance of getting through the fence and a ten percent chance of getting shot.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden