wannabe

What we’re left with is a wannabe blockbuster shadowboxing with itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Here's the latest crop of wannabe star bakers.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

You don’t have to scroll far on social media to find travel hacks from influencers, wannabe influencers, travel agents, frequent fliers and people trying to sell you something.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

And Thatcher’s other film roles in 2023’s “The Boogeyman” and a bit part in the following year’s “MaXXXine” certainly don’t help Hollywood’s perception of her as a wannabe scream queen.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

A wannabe vampire, or maybe a Kool-Aid freak?

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

At gone 22:00 BST on Monday night, there was still a minibus full of ministerial wannabes inside Downing Street waiting for their new positions to be confirmed.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

He now leads New York, “and there are wannabes all over the country,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Others, like the Elvis impersonators roaming the streets, were wannabes, eager to tap into the mass tort gold mine.

From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026

In your story, you again tap that rich vein of Jewish gangsters and wannabes I got to know in the “Gangsterland” novels and the short story collection “The Low Desert.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2024

Talent contests and megalomaniac record producers have always paired ingenue wannabes with experienced songwriters, for instance, cashing in quickly on success before the public's appetite for novelty fades.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall