ambitious
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Veronica Dagher is an award-winning Wall Street Journal personal finance reporter and the author of the WSJ ebook “Resilience: How 20 Ambitious Women Used Obstacles to Fuel Their Success.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
Ambitious entrepreneurs, old and new, are advancing powerful artificial intelligence tools that could transform lives.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025
Ambitious Lyon have spent £115m on nine players - their biggest outlay for the past three summer windows.
From BBC • Aug. 26, 2024
Ambitious, high-level targets often catalyze funding that filters down to researchers, she says.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 13, 2024
Ambitious men caught glimpses of nobler ambitions than their own, and even worldlings confessed that his beliefs were beautiful and true, although ‘they wouldn’t pay’.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 4
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