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ambitious

[am-bish-uhs] / æmˈbɪʃ əs /




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Sir Keir said this year's summit "will not just ratify existing commitments made at last year's summit" but would be "more ambitious".

From BBC

"I am not in favour of an ambitious industrial project that will serve our armed forces being co-managed. We need a leader."

From Barron's

The two-phase exercise, billed as the world's most ambitious of its kind, will see more than three million officials spend a year counting every person in India.

From BBC

But there are signs developers’ ambitious building timelines are running into limitations of electricity, labor and local support.

From The Wall Street Journal

Combining its operations with Unilever’s sprawling food business—which generates about $12 billion in annual sales—represents its most ambitious deal so far.

From The Wall Street Journal