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Even in moments when they do feel lonely, these women say loneliness doesn't define their lives, nor do they aspire to remain permanently friendless.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

The league hasn’t announced its plans for shifting games outside of Illinois other than to confirm they aspire to do so.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Most young workers who aspire to feel wealthy will need to continue investing a considerable share of their income for some time.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

In the news business, there’s the world that most of us journalists aspire to live in—the one that has our audience eagerly clamoring for more of our serious accountability reporting.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

“Let me be rightly understood. This match, to which you have the presumption to aspire, can never take place. No, never. Mr. Darcy is engaged to my daughter. Now what have you to say?”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

"He's ready to close this chapter and focus on his recovery and engage in therapy as he aspires to have a normal life."

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

"For anyone who aspires to do more and wants to go further, I'm proof you can do it," he said, also giving shout-outs to the local schools he had been to.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

The serious journalism Margaret aspires to do is splintering under our distrust of who controls the megaphones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Eden Bower, a statuesque young woman, aspires to stardom on the stage; her real name is Edna Bowers—“her father sold farming machinery in Huntington, Illinois.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

"Your brother Benjen came to me about Jon a few days ago. It seems the boy aspires to take the black."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

He also aspired to coach college, and Florida, with its top-flight teams, seemed a better steppingstone than the Ozarks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

A designer, Corvette once aspired to create her own clothing line but couldn’t get her spike-heeled foot in the door.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Many series followed in the wake of “Battlestar Galactica” that aspired to capitalize on its legacy; in my mind, “The Expanse” came closest to meeting its level of fearless political and social pertinence.

From Salon ● May 5, 2026

Ashford Inc. never became the big manager of outside assets that it aspired to be.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

Hamilton himself was a kind of Horatio Alger hero who aspired to fame more than fortune, but he understood the world of banking, investing, and speculating from within.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

AI is turning that assumption upside down, and more aspiring entrepreneurs are going it alone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

The divorced aspiring actor “filmed every second of my life” when she was a youngster, noting that the two were inseparable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Some in the real-estate industry encouraged aspiring buyers to “date the rate, marry the house,” assuring them that they could refinance when rates dropped.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Once Pomroy arrives for a training camp in December, he will set up coaching programmes for players and aspiring coaches so the sport can continue throughout the year.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

It was the kind of prodigious output that even aspiring male engineers could only hope to replicate.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly