aspire to
Example Sentences
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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
"People do not aspire to be beneficiaries," says Tillin.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
They hope to live even longer: Those 80 and older, on average, aspire to live to 93, according to the Pew Research Center.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Horsfield’s version shows the kind of sumptuous cage many aspire to live in, revealing why some people prefer to remain lavishly trapped, and others rattle the bars, hoping for escape.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
Bertillon had made detective work aspire to scientific standards.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
