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aspiration

[as-puh-rey-shuhn] / ˌæs pəˈreɪ ʃən /


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However, if a poem leads you to a state of understanding, of awareness, and above all, aspiration, then you start to think about a different life, you want to live differently.

From Barron's • May 21, 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

Under this pretext, without showing his aspiration for imperial power, he moved his army to Rome, and was in Italy before his departure was known.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli




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