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ambition
noun as in strong desire for success
Strongest matches
appetite, aspiration, desire, energy, enthusiasm, hope, initiative, longing, love, lust, passion, pretension, spirit, vigor, yearning, zeal
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ardor, avidity, craving, drive, eagerness, earnestness, emulation, enterprise, hankering, hunger, itch, keenness, moxie, push, striving, thirst
Weak matches
Example Sentences
"Aspects of this legislation risks suffocating the very thing that makes English football so unique, the aspiration that allows clubs to rise and succeed in our pyramid system. The ambition that means fans can dream," she said.
SNP MSP Emma Roddick called for the party's Westminster leader to rethink his ambition to hold two seats seats.
Another senior party figure described Flynn's move as "naked ambition".
It comes after the party's Westminster leader, Stephen Flynn, announced his ambition to stand in the 2026 Holyrood election.
“All year we have celebrated fiction that inhabits ideas rather than declaiming on issues, not finding answers but changing the question of what we wanted to explore. Our unanimity about Orbital recognises its beauty and ambition. It reflects Harvey’s extraordinary intensity of attention to the precious and precarious world we share.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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