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ambitious person





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"I'm a really ambitious person and I wasn't achieving the goals I wanted to achieve," he says.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2021

But, he went on, “She is not an ambitious person to the point where she’s going to step on the turf of the incumbent governor to benefit herself. She’s not made that way.”

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2021

For many people, he’s the kind of obnoxiously ambitious person whose greatest pleasure as a teenager was coming up with novel ways to obstruct Model UN resolutions.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2018

I would say she was an ambitious person.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2016

To his way of thinking, the Big Bang occurred after a single ambitious person seized power, perhaps in a coup.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann