ambition
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"It's a brilliantly written human story about power, control, ambition and greed that might be the most urgently relevant film of our time," Neglia said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
Earlier this week, influential Hearts investor Tony Bloom repeated his faith in his title ambition for the Tynecastle club.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
And there’s even a sense of idealism about his ambition.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
His main ambition was to perform on the stage, a place where he felt most alive, but his dad didn’t see it as a job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
The second was that I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
The country is also facing independence ambitions in the French-speaking province of Quebec.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
But Wembley is just the beginning of their ambitions.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
But they had an appealingly limited set of ambitions.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
Recognizing its importance to Germany's nuclear ambitions, Allied forces targeted the plant through sabotage and bombing operations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
She could imagine how she might abandon her ambitions of writing and dedicate her life in return for these moments of elated, generalized love.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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