ambition
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That’s not even the only cruise in the news right now for public health reasons—a norovirus outbreak on a ship called Ambition recently made dozens of passengers sick shortly after the trip began.
From Slate • May 16, 2026
Newsom’s talk also matched the tenor of a critique of the oil industry he delivered last fall at the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit in New York.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2024
In our inaugural edition of Money Talks, Felix Salmon sits down with veteran fashion writer Marisa Meltzer, author of Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier.
From Slate • Jan. 9, 2024
Ambition is also playing a role in the retirement trends.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2023
‘Today we are to confer the five-dollar award upon the high-school student who wrote the best essay on the topic, “My Ambition: How I Can Better the Position of the Negro Race in Society.”
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Vocabulary lists containing ambition
Nothing But the Truth
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