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ambitious

[am-bish-uhs] / æmˈbɪʃ əs /




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Miels reiterated the company’s ambitious growth targets—with or without Nuvalent—promising to increase annual sales to more than $53 billion by 2031, up more than 20% from where sales are now.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Riyadh Air is owned by the $900 billion Public Investment Fund, the main vehicle for de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's ambitious Vision 2030 economic reforms.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

The flagship project had been billed as an ambitious and unparalleled military partnership.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

That plan, which Musk said should be taken with a “grain of salt,” is more ambitious than what SpaceX laid out in its IPO filing.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

The girls he’d grown up with in Shaker—and the boys, too, for that matter—seemed so purposeful: they were so ambitious; they were so confident; they were so certain about everything.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng




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