aspiration
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James Bond really serves as a symbol in the show, a symbol of aspiration, pinnacle of achievement in this industry and also of alpha masculinity and all this kind of stuff.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 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
It also normalizes elite privilege by reframing it as relatable aspiration.
From Salon • May 18, 2026
It’s a chronicle of race history in the late 19th and 20th centuries, with all the unpleasantness, and yet it is an act of poetic aspiration, resignation and bravura aesthetics.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 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
Vocabulary lists containing aspiration
This Week in Pop Culture : January 5 - 11, 2019
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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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