aspiration

Example Sentences

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He shared what might be a more challenging aspiration.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

That collapse has erased hundreds of billions in market value from European luxury conglomerates and American beauty giants that bet heavily on Chinese middle-class aspiration.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

"I'm pretty comfortable with the aspiration to be in a unique special relationship as long as we remember it needs to be created," he says.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

Mr. Mansfield claims that this aspiration extends all the way back to Niccolò Machiavelli’s proposal to replace useless knowledge with the “effectual truth.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

It was the aspiration of all those of us with professional ambition to work our way as close to this hub as we were each of us capable.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro