ambition
Example Sentences
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In a departure from an older generation of private clubs, Core prized accomplishment, ambition and talent over inherited social class.
And it shows the returns to ambition, boundless optimism, and sense of long-term strategy.
From BBC
The Human Exposome Project is designed to rival, and potentially exceed, the ambition of the Human Genome Project.
From Science Daily
The play’s split focus, moving between 1958 and the present, is a sign of conceptual ambition.
From Los Angeles Times
Over the following months, he ousted national security adviser Mike Waltz, an architect of the maritime ambitions, because of an unrelated debacle.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.