aspiration
Example Sentences
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Inquiry co-chair Baroness Estelle Morris said responsibility "cannot sit with schools alone" and was not due to a lack of aspiration or effort from young people.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026
In its sense of upward lift, it speaks of striving and aspiration and of almost inexpressible yearning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2026
The device itself often feels caught between present reality and future aspiration.
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2026
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
It was the aspiration of all those of us with professional ambition to work our way as close to this hub as we were each of us capable.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Vocabulary lists containing aspiration
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Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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