ambition
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The man who created “The Rite of Spring”—a ballet whose pounding dissonances and unconventional rhythms caused pandemonium at its 1913 Paris premiere—now insisted that the bolder the creative ambition, the tighter the frame must be.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
When I tell The Dog my gardening ambition, she cocks her head to one side.
From Salon • May 9, 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
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
It was hard to imagine him ever lonely, or bored or despondent; his equanimity was bottomless, as was his lack of ambition, and he assumed that everyone else was much like him.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing ambition
Nothing But the Truth
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