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aspiring

adjective as in hopeful

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So LaPorta, a former pre-med student and onetime aspiring veterinarian at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale argued with Kelly.

She said she met Kelly in 2015, when she was a 17-year-old aspiring R&B singer, and that she went to live with him in Chicago and Atlanta before graduating.

Thirty percent were casual or aspiring sports bettors, saying they’d bet some in their state if it was legal but they weren’t going to bet illegally.

Her mother, the former Mable Atlee, was an aspiring writer who headed west from Michigan in the early 1900s to teach.

“They tried to make him look like the bad guy,” said Holley, who remembered her younger brother as a popular athlete who won awards in high school track and field and an aspiring model.

That Huckabee is mentioned in the same sentence with other aspiring conservative governors, especially Bobby Jindal, is laughable.

For many aspiring comedians, earning a place on SNL is their entire raison d'être.

Not about encouraging aspiring butchers to live out their violent fantasies in Syria.

Great for the aspiring Quentin Tarantino, or for the aspiring next Feiffer.

This is not lost on their commander, Rama (Shani Klein), an aspiring military careerist who looks down on frivolity in wartime.

The universal ignorance of the working class broke down the aspiring force of genius.

A woman with such capabilities would be wasted in the rle of a mere countess—but as the wife of an aspiring Liberal statesman!

Beauty was there; but it was the beauty of sadness; it was the crushed ruin of what might once have been bright and aspiring.

Throw your knowledge into compositions of a less startling, less aspiring character.

Yet, even against such accumulated disasters and disgraces, his vigorous and aspiring mind bore up.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to aspiring, such as: eager, would-be, endeavoring, longing, striving, and ambitious.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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