aspirational
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He stands with a voter, who points across the river, a subtle message of an aspirational future.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
“This is proof positive that population-scale personalized medicine is not just an aspirational goal but is an achievable reality today.”
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
"These figures used to be more on the aspirational side," Monica Castillo, the film critic for the pop culture website The A.V.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
A yearslong boom in Chinese demand has fizzled, and the West’s aspirational middle classes, vital to brands like Louis Vuitton, are increasingly squeezed by price inflation, damping their confidence to splurge on high-end goods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The last example shows that verbs can be drained of life when they are turned into adjectives, too, as when contribute becomes contributive to or aspire becomes on the aspirational level.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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