aspire
Example Sentences
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He retired as Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO in December, handing letter-writing duties to his successor—after setting a standard some aspire to meet.
“My friend Rob’s movies will last for lifetimes because they were about what makes us laugh and cry and what we aspire to be,” Crystal said.
He did not address an FBI bulletin released Wednesday evening warning that Iran “allegedly aspired” to attack California with drones as part of their war effort.
From Salon
Like Benjamin Franklin, who lived in London in these years, he aspired to combine art, science, ethics and public appeal in a single worldview.
He also said he was working on a western, a genre he had never attempted but had long aspired to tackle.
From Barron's
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