ambition
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With its bed made just so, “Exit 8” has a refreshing ambition: It wants to be both a purgatory and an advancement in form.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Only her carved cheekbones give off an impression of Lori’s hungry ambition.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
McKay said the ambition is to deploy up to 1 billion Canadian dollars, the equivalent of US$722 million, over the coming years to help companies build and scale in Canada.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
And judged against that ambition, what has the mission shown us in the six days since Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen lifted off on April 1st?
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
And in keeping it, they had no other difficulty than that which arose among themselves from their own ambition.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
Vocabulary lists containing ambition
Nothing But the Truth
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