ambition
Example Sentences
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Beijing has been unusually explicit about the ambition.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
What I said in August: "No-one can question the ambition of owner Evangelos Marinakis."
From BBC • May 25, 2026
Its relative shapelessness, along with its use of a ghostwriter, doesn’t bolster her literary credentials, but its existence points to Monroe’s ambition to have them.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
At this point in a career, I feel like the question is, where do you get the motivation, ambition and creativity to do anything?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
No ambition is too great for us, and no act is too small.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
Vocabulary lists containing ambition
Nothing But the Truth
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