aspire
Example Sentences
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Cairo has aspired to become the key gas hub for the region, but its own gas production has decreased in recent years while domestic needs have increased, magnifying its reliance on imported gas from Israel.
Mr Douglas said what he "loved" about being a manager at the theatre was that it allowed him to "bring in people that are aspiring actors".
From BBC
"And where do our young aspiring players want to play? That's a worry for the future."
From BBC
Aside from teaching at WundaBar and offering private training, Hayward aspires to have her own space and develop her own workout method.
From Los Angeles Times
For most of his life, Michelangelo’s 16th-century biographer Ascanio Condivi tells us, the artist aspired to carve a colossus out of a coastal mountain, a figure visible from ships at sea.
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