ambition
Example Sentences
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In his first press conference in November 2022 the Spaniard's ambition was clear.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
These gaps, in other words, reflect broader differences in access to wealth-building tools rather than differences in effort or ambition.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
“It’s always the ambition to be the Nvidia of quantum, and we’re demonstrating we’re on track for that,” CEO Niccolo de Masi told Barron’s ahead of IonQ’s first-quarter earnings report.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
Half a century later, Kate Hudson’s performance of the song fulfilled that ambition as the finale of “Song Sung Blue.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
His only apparent ambition, like Dave’s, was to be left alone; though, as Buck was afterward to learn, each of them possessed one other and even more vital ambition.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
Vocabulary lists containing ambition
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