ambition
Example Sentences
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Platner always wanted to be a soldier, an ambition he says he can’t fully explain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
He admires him, but there is a quiet stubbornness in how he frames his own ambition.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
The presidency is a skin suit that barely conceals this ambition.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
I remember feeling like I had no access and that I didn’t have any place to put my ambition.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
He enumerated the names of famous Charleses in order to stir up genetic ambition in the boy.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing ambition
Nothing But the Truth
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