aspiration
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The book established many of the themes that continue through Rowbottom’s fiction: women at odds with their bodies, mothers and daughters struggling toward one another, beauty as both aspiration and burden.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
It also normalizes elite privilege by reframing it as relatable aspiration.
From Salon • May 18, 2026
It’s a chronicle of race history in the late 19th and 20th centuries, with all the unpleasantness, and yet it is an act of poetic aspiration, resignation and bravura aesthetics.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Voters may value welfare - but increasingly ask what comes after it: jobs, wages, mobility, aspiration.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
Perhaps he was proud of Johnny’s aspiration to make a career of sport.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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Vocabulary lists containing aspiration
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Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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