ambitious person

Example Sentences

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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

Her lawyer said that she was merely an ambitious person hoping to advance her career by improving relations between the United States and Russia.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2019

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