ambition
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Coming off a breakout 2025 during which she won World Cup golds in Astana and Delhi before becoming world champion in Liverpool, Lamboria is in Glasgow with an uncomplicated ambition.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Debbie is a politician’s wife who sidelined her career aspirations to support his ambition to be Prime Minister.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
Her ambition is now to help create a broad ballistic missile defence coalition -- "something that does not yet exist in the world" -- in which Fire Point hopes to play a central role.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
The delay doesn’t help Alphabet’s ambition to provide state-of-the-art AI-coding tools—the area where its AI strategy is most lacking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
It was a splendid marriage and he thought of ambition only, never of love or of gratitude.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Reflecting on young South Asians entering the industry today, she says: "I hope their ambitions aren't capped. They should be everywhere."
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
For Kelsey, the lessons from Whipsnade Zoo continue to shape both her ambitions and her approach to education.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
He eventually spun this persona out for his political ambitions.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
The display comes at a sensitive time for China’s AI ambitions, as domestic AI model-makers are gaining ground and robotic technology is developing quickly despite U.S. attempts to contain it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
He had been refused a visa years ago, when he was newly graduated and drunk with American ambitions, but with his new bank statements, he easily got a visa.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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