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ambitious person
noun as in eager beaver
noun as in go-getter
Example Sentences
"I'm a very ambitious person, a very hard-working person, and I think to try and push boundaries and try and be a pioneer for change, in many ways, is something that I really enjoy doing, and hopefully I can do for the rest of my career."
Borgli says, “Some of the behavior comes from a certain type of entitled, ambitious person who hasn’t got what he thinks he deserves yet. Some of his negative traits I can locate in myself, one being the horrible feeling of confidently telling a bad joke. Also, my father’s a social anthropologist; my secondhand embarrassment from my father has been, through my teenage years, very strong.”
“I’m an ambitious person, but I’m not a greedy one. I know I can’t have everything, so there are some things I will have to sacrifice and for right now, that seems like one that I can live with.”
Her latest book, Quit Playing Small,is a must-have for the ambitious person's morning routine.
In the same interview, Mr. Trump called Mrs. Haley, who announced her presidential run on Wednesday, “a very ambitious person” who “just couldn’t stay in a seat.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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