ambitious
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She created, hosted, and produced the acclaimed WSJ podcast franchise "Secrets of Wealthy Women" and authored the WSJ ebook "Resilience: How 20 Ambitious Women Used Obstacles to Fuel Their Success."
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Ambitious city women start out thinking they’re going to grab the world by the tail, pull it down and put it in their pocket.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 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 people, mannered people, neurotic people, high-society people—the kind of people who make life in the city so interesting—became unbearable to me.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Vocabulary lists containing ambitious
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 4
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The New SAT: Words to Capture Tone
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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