ambitious
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"Achievement of these very ambitious targets would create substantial additional value for all Ryanair shareholders," Ryanair said in a statement.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026
To Tom Wolfe, New York City was the “billion-footed beast,” the locus of the country’s power, wealth and taste-making, and the ultimate quarry of any ambitious writer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
Among the most ambitious and challenging ideas riding this wave of enthusiasm is something that sounds almost like science fiction: orbital data centers.
From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2026
“It will tell every CEO, every board, every institutional investor, every government, and every ambitious young engineer that the direction has been set,” Blackman wrote of SpaceX’s IPO.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026
Maybe she will try writing again, nothing too ambitious, a fun poem in the limerick mode.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing ambitious
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 4
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The New SAT: Words to Capture Tone
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